Jacques Raverat

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Jacques Pierre Raverat (1885 — 1925) was a French painter.

He married the English painter Gwen Darwin, in 1911, the daughter of George Darwin and granddaughter of Charles Darwin. They had two daughters, Sophie (born ?) who married the Cambridge scholar Mark Pryor, and Elisabeth (born 1916), who married the Norwegian politician Edvard Hambro. He suffered from of multiple sclerosis.

In 2004, his grandson, William Pryor edited the complete correspondence between Raverat, his wife and Virginia Woolf which was published as Virginia Woolf and the Raverats.