Nina Hamnett: Queen of Bohemia

“A lady was the last thing I wanted to be.”

Portrait of Nina Hamnett, Bloomsbury Group artist Roger Fry, Oil on Canvas, 1917 (The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds)

Nina Hamnett was an early twentieth-century artist as famous for her flamboyant personality as she was for her work. With a colourful life lived at the centre of the avant-garde circles of London and Paris, she embraced the spirit of the time and was nicknamed the Queen of Bohemia.