Ethel Sands
Ethel Sands was an Americanborn artist and hostess who lived in England from her early childhood. She studied art in Paris for several years under Eugne Carrire, and it was there that she met Anna Hope Hudson , her life partner. Her works were influenced by the artist Edouard Vuillard and Walter Sickert, and were generally of still lifes and interior scenes, many of which are of Chteau dAuppegard that she shared with Hudson in France. Sands was a Fitzroy Street Group and London Group member. Her works are in the collections of museums, the National Portrait Gallery, London and public collections. During both world wars, she nursed soldiers she established a hospital in France in World War I. In 1916 she was made a citizen of England.
Ethel Sands was born onJuly 1873 in Newport, Rhode Island, the first child of Mary Morton Hartpence and Mahlon Sands, who married in 1872. Mahlon Sands was secretary of the American Free Trade League, who in 1870 advocated for civil service reform and free trade. He was partner of his deceased fathers pharmaceutical importing firm, A.B. Sands and Company. Ethel had two younger brothers, Mahlong Alan and Morton Harcourt Sands, who were respectivelyandyears younger than Ethel.
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