Draft:Josselin Bodley
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Comment: It looks very likely that this person meets notability guidelines. However, Art UK and Artsper do not appear to be reliable sources. That leaves us without sources dealing with him in depth, as the other sources are about his relatives. We need reliable sources about him or his art in order to have an article on him. asilvering (talk) 03:16, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Josselin Reginald Courtenay Bodley (1893-1974) was an English painter who lived in France after [World War I] military service in Belgium, where he was wounded.[1] Educated at Eton and considered one of the most promising painters of the interwar period,[2] he was the younger son of the English civil servant, political writer, and historian John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1853-1925) and Evelyn Frances Bell, and through her a cousin of the British Arabist Gertrude Bell.[3] Josselin's grandfather Edward Fisher Bodley (1815-1881) was a successful businessman, nonconformist minister, and justice of the peace who founded E. F. Bodley & Co., a well known Staffordshire pottery firm. His older brother Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC, (1892-1970) was a World War I hero, adventurer and journalist.[4] His younger sister Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley was a well known London political and social hostess.[5] The family descends from relatives of the 16th century English scholar and diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.[4]
Bodley painted architectural and landscape subjects and war scenes.[1] His work combined tradition, modernism, and realism, but resisted the avantgarde trends of the time.[2] His work was displayed at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, the Leicester Galleries in London, the New York gallery of Marie Norton Harriman, and the Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim.[2][6]
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- ^ a b "Bodley, Josselin, 1893–1974 | Art UK".
- ^ a b c "▷ Josselin Bodley | Buy Original Art Online | Artsper".
- ^ "Bodley, John Edward Courtenay". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Flanner, Janet; Maloney, Russell; Kinkead, Eugene (19 February 1943). "Bodley of Arabia". The New Yorker.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Margaret (2016). "Anderson [née Bodley], (Alix Yveline) Ava Courtenay, Viscountess Waverley (1895–1974), political and social hostess". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/109615. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
- ^ "Josselin Bodley on Mullen Books".