Quentin Bell

Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian and author.

Bell was a Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Sussex from 1967 to 1975.

He sometimes worked as an artist, principally in ceramics, but for his career he was drawn to academia and to book-writing.

Bell's biography of his famous aunt, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, but also the Duff Cooper Prize and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award.

They had three children: Julian Bell, an artist and muralist; Cressida Bell, a textile designer; and Virginia Nicholson,[6] the writer of Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Among the Bohemians and Singled Out.