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Painter, muralist, draughtsman, illustrator and writer who attended the Slade School of Fine Art, 1918–20. She was confirmed in her desire to be an artist when sitting for a portrait by Ambrose McEvoy. At the Slade the unmarried Daphne Baring, who initially exhibited under this name, met fellow-student Arthur Pollen, also an artist, whom she married in 1926. Like him she studied with Henry Tonks, who encouraged her to undertake wall painting, and Philip Wilson Steer. Her group exhibitions included IS, 1918 (pseudonymously, as B Ginner); “No Name” exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, 1921; Redfern Gallery, 1923; and NEAC, 1927. She was early encouraged by her uncle, Maurice Baring, illustrating two of his novels, A Triangle, 1923, and Cat’s Cradle, 1925.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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