Helen Coombe

[2] She associated with the circle around Century Guild of Artists, a small group founded by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, based in London at 20 Fitzroy Square.

[13] At the period from late 1901 when W. B. Yeats was promoting performances inspired by Florence Farr as "chaunting", accompanied by a psaltery, he favoured the three-musician chorus.

[18] Coombe married Roger Fry on 3 December 1896 at the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great in London.

[24] [25] Coombe gained presumed painting commissions through associations with the Church of Humanity in Chapel Street, Belgravia.

[26] Her copy of a work from the workshop of Botticelli, The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel, now in the Herbert Gallery, was done for Emily Geddes, widow of James Cruickshank Geddes of the Calcutta Positivist Society, and sister-in-law of Richard Congreve, the Church's founder.

[32] She designed a stained-glass window on the subject of Martha and Mary, for St John the Evangelist Church, High Cross, East Hertfordshire.

[35] For the design, she consulted Roger Fry, who gave her substantive help with the roundels filled out as medallions, as she worked to a deadline in summer 1896.

[37] It was one of three smaller, pentagonal instruments made in golden pine, and was given as a wedding present to R. C. Trevelyan, married in 1900.

[40] The Trevelyan cabinet (c.1900), designed by Roger Fry and now in the Art Gallery of South Australia, was decorated by Helen.

The Trevelyan cabinet, decorated by Coombe, at the Art Gallery of South Australia .
Helen with Roger Fry, photograph c.1897