Quentin Bell

Quentin Bell (1910–1996) was an English art historian and author. The nephew of writer Virginia Woolf and the son of painter Vanessa Bell, Bell published, in 1972, a critically acclaimed biography of Woolf, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, for which he received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. Alongside his career in writing, Bell worked as a lecturer in fine arts at various institutions, including Leeds, Oxford, and Sussex.