Gwen Salmond
English artist
Mary Gwendoline Salmond, also known as Gwen Salmond (1877–1958), was a British artist. She was the daughter of Major General William Salmond and wife of Sir Matthew Smith.
Early life
Salmond was the daughter of Major General William Salmond and Lady Emma Mary H. Hoyle Salmond. She became an artist against the "strictly bourgeois plans" of her parents. Her siblings were Emma, Gladys, Geoffrey, and John.
Education
Salmond studied at Slade School of Art where her friends included Gwen John and Ursula Tyrwhitt. Other students in the class of 1895, aside from Salmond and John, were Ida Nettleship and Edna Waugh.
She went to Paris in the winter of 1898–1899 with Nettleship and John to further their education. They studied at the Académie Carmen, where James Abbott McNeill Whistler taught and Salmond paid John's fees. While there, the women made paintings of each other and self-portraits.
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