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Josselin Bodley
Josselin Reginald Courtenay Bodley (1893–1974) was an English painter who lived in France after World War I military service in Belgium, where he was wounded at the Battle of Ypres in 1915. He left the army at the rank of Captain and was awarded the Military Cross.[1] Educated at Eton and considered one of the most promising painters of the interwar period,[2] he was the younger son of the English civil servant, political writer, and historian John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1853–1925) and Evelyn Frances Bell, and through her a cousin of the British Arabist Gertrude Bell.[3][failed verification – see discussion] Josselin's grandfather Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881) was a successful businessman, nonconformist minister, and justice of the peace who founded E. F. Bodley & Co., a well known Staffordshire pottery firm. His older brother Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC, (1892–1970) was a World War I hero, adventurer and journalist.[4] His younger sister Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley was a well known London political and social hostess.[5] The family descends from relatives of the 16th century English scholar and diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.[4] Bodley painted architectural and landscape subjects and war scenes.[1] His work combined tradition, modernism, and realism, but resisted the avantgarde trends of the time.[1] His work was displayed at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, the Leicester Galleries in London, the New York gallery of Marie Norton Harriman, the Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim, and the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.[6][1] Later in the life, the French government made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his artistic achievements.[1] References
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