Clare Frewen Sheridan

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Clare Consuelo Frewen Sheridan
Born	September 9, 1885 London, England
Died	May 31, 1970 Sussex, England
Occupation	Sculptor and writer
Spouse	William Frederick Sheridan (1879-1915)[1]
Children	Margaret Sheridan (1912-80) Elizabeth Sheridan (1913-14) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1915-37)
Parents	Moreton Frewen (1853-1924) Clarita Jerome (1851-1935)

Clare Consuelo Frewen Sheridan (nee Clare Consuelo Frewen) (1885-1970), also known as Clare Consuelo Sheridan, was a British sculptress and writer who is known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters, and writing diaries recounting her worldly travels. She was famously the cousin of Sir Winston Churchill.

After the death of her second child, Elizabeth, in 1914, Clare sculpted a weeping angel as an outpouring for her grief. It was from this piece of art that Clare discovered an ability for sculpting, and after the death of her husband a year later, she moved from France to London to study under John Tweed and Professor Edouard Lanteri.

Contents 1 Soviet Russia 2 Sculpted works 3 Written works 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Soviet Russia

In the summer of 1920 a Soviet Russian trade delegation on a visit to London invited Clare to travel to Russia to make busts of notable revolutionaries. In the Autumn she travelled to Moscow where her sitters were Dzerzhinsky, Lev Kamenev, Lenin, Trotsky and Zinoviev She had a reputed affair with Lev Kamenev in 1920, after sculpting his bust.

[edit] Sculpted works

• Felix Dzherzinsky (1920)
• Lev Kamanev (1920)
• Vladimir Lenin (1920)
• Leon Trotsky (1920)
• Grigory Zinoviev (1920)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1931)
• Sir Winston Churchill (1943)
• Woman leading blind soldier^[2]

[edit] Written works

• Russian Portraits (1921)
• Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan's Diary (1921)
• My American diary - New York, Boni and Liveright (1922)
• In many places (1923)
• West to East (1923)
• Across Europe with Satanella (1925)
• A Turkish kaleidoscope (1926)
• Arab interlude (1936)
• To the four winds (1957)

[edit] External links

• http://www.trotskyana.net/Other_trotskyana/Trotsky_Sculptors/trotsky_sculptors.html

[edit] References