Jennifer Goff

Eileen Gray


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2003.59, The Mother’s Tragedy, 1901. NMIEG 2003.56, Tannhäuser, a Story of All Time, 1902. NMIEG 2003.57, An Essay in Ontology with some remarks on Ceremonial Magic., 9 December 1903. NMIEG 2003.58, The Star and the Garter, 1903.

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       A Moveable Feast: Stephen Haweis, Students and Paris

      Throughout Eileen Gray’s life she kept many publications, letters, articles, magazines and photographs of people whom she knew and who shaped her life, both personally and professionally. Included in this interesting contemporary milieu were Wyndham Lewis, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Festus Kelly, Clive Bell, Kathleen Bruce, Jessie Gavin, Roger Fry (1866-1934), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), Lucie Delarue Mardrus (1874-1945), Chana Orloff (1888-1968), and Gabrielle Bloch. It is through the diaries, notes, letters and archives of those family, friends, acquaintances and associates who featured in her life during this time that a fuller understanding of Eileen Gray, from art student to artist emerges.

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      2.1 Eileen Gray, 1898-1900, black and white photograph © NMI

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      2.2 Loïe Fuller dancing the Tanz de Lilie, 1896, black and white photograph © IMAGNO/Austrian Archives/Topfoto

      Eileen Gray and Stephen Haweis had much in common. Haweis, like Gray, came from a distinguished family which was also marked with controversy and scandal. His maternal grandfather Thomas Musgrave Joy (1812-1866) was a fashionable portrait painter who gave drawing lessons to Prince Albert and did portraits of the royal children and their pets at Windsor Castle. Mary Eliza Haweis, Stephen’s mother, was born in 1848. When she was eighteen, she sold a painting to the Royal Academy and painted two portraits on commission. The following year she married the renowned Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis of St James’s Church, Marylebone. The young couple became very popular in London society and were presented at Court. Mary Eliza became an arbiter of fashion during the 1870s and 80s and was one of the cognoscenti. The couple’s first child died in infancy, and thereafter his parents had two sons and a daughter. Like Gray, Haweis was the youngest; he was born Stephen Hugh Willyams on 23 July, 1878.

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      2.3 Stephen Haweis, 1923, sepia tint photograph © Photo courtesy of the Marine Biological Laboratory Archives and the History of Marine Biological Laboratory website (history.archives.mbl.edu)