Otho Lloyd

Otho Lloyd (1885‒1979) was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff.

[1] Otho Holland Lloyd abandoned his wife soon after the birth of their second child, Fabien Avenarius, the future Arthur Cravan, in 1887.

Nellie sued for divorce and won a substantial settlement before she married the Swiss doctor Henri Grandjean.

[2] Otho was educated in Switzerland and England and studied painting in the studios of André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse.

[3] Otho postponed a professional career until 1939, when he finally felt "fully prepared" to appear in public.