Thirty Paintings. With Foreword by Edward Garnett.

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Inscribed by Heath on the flyleaf, to a fellow artist: 'Muirhead Bone, with E.M. Heath's grateful remembrances, July 1935'. Ellen Maurice Heath, taught by Walter Sickert (who painted her portrait), was a painter of landscapes and portraits; amongst her sitters for those in the latter category, included here, were Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, and the young David Garnett. Heath had, in fact, by the time of this publication, been Edward Garnett's companion for almost forty years, and was later described by the son in his memoir as 'practically one of our family'. She was the daughter of rural author Richard Heath, and her work was admired by D.H. Lawrence, who considered in a letter to Eddie Marsh that 'she does some awfully original things'.