Sophie Jane Gurney (née Raverat, formerly Pryor; 20 December 1919 – 10 June 2011) was an English artist, linked to many of the leading intellectual and cultural figures of the early 20th century.
[2] Gurney was born in 1919, the younger daughter of English wood engraver Gwen Darwin and French painter Jacques Raverat.
[citation needed] She was educated at home in Cambridge and then at the Perse School for Girls, before studying violin in Switzerland.
She was accepted by the Royal College of Music, switching to medicine just prior to the outbreak of World War II, but later abandoned her studies in 1940 after her marriage.
Sophie and Mark Pryor were involved in a road traffic accident in 1967, in which she was relatively unharmed but which left him with brain damage in a persistent vegetative state for almost three years until his death in 1970, aged 51.