Quentin Bell
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Quentin Bell (1910 – December 16, 1996) was an English art historian.
Bell was the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Stephen Bell and the nephew of Virginia Woolf. Bell's biography of his famous aunt, Virginia Woolf: A biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, but also the Duff Cooper Prize and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award.
He was a professor of art history and theory at the University of Sussex from 1967 to 1975.
He was married to Anne Olivier Bell. They had three children: Julian, Cressida, and Virginia.
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