Dorothy Hepworth

[3] Hepworth moved on to the Slade School of Fine Art in 1917, where she met Patricia Preece, and from which she graduated with first class honours in 1919.

[5] Some of the paintings were purchased by Kenneth Clark, Virginia Woolf and Augustus John, among others.

Evidence for Hepworth's creating them herself comes from diaries that the two shared, where Preece admits to having had little hand in the creation of the paintings.

Preece took Hepworth on the honeymoon, while Spencer stayed at home working on a painting.

[11] Hepworth and Preece (as Vivian Spencer) are buried in Cookham churchyard beneath a common memorial (pictured).