Wendela Boreel

Wendela Boreel (1895–1985) was a British artist noted for her gouache painting method and intaglio works.

She also held shows at the New English Art Club and as part of Frank Rutter’s Allied Artists’ Association and the London Group.

Boreel and her parents lived on Tite Street and she became friends with Frank Schuster and met John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Elgar, Siegfried Sassoon, W. B. Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Roger Fry, and Glyn Philpot.

[2] In 1919 Frank Schuster introduced Boreel to Leslie Wylde (nicknamed 'Anzie'), an army officer from New Zealand, who had lost a leg during the Gallipoli Campaign.

[3] Boreel and Wylde married in 1924 and Schuster invited them to live in "The Hut", his country estate in Bray, Berkshire.