Mary Chamot

Mary Chamot (8 November 1899 - 10 May 1993) was an English art historian and museum curator, and the first woman curator at the Tate Gallery.

Mary Chamot
Portrait of Mary Chamot 1927, by Nadia Benois
Born(1899-11-08)8 November 1899
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died10 May 1993(1993-05-10) (aged 93)
Wadhurst, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationSlade School
Partner(s)Lulette Gerebzov[1]

Biography

Mary Chamot was born on 8 November 1899 in Strelna, near Saint Petersburg, the only child of Alfred Edward Chamot (English-born and of French descent), an administrator of the Imperial Palace Gardens at Strelna, and Elisabeth Chamot (née Grooten), of Dutch and German origin.[2][3]

After the Russian revolution, the family moved to England, and Chamot earned a Fine Art Diploma from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1922.[2]

In 1949, she became the first woman curator at London's Tate Gallery.[2]

Her friends included Stanley Spencer, Gilbert Spencer, the Carlines, Lord Methuen, Edward Bawden and Jim Ede.[2]

Chamot died in 10 May 1993 in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England.[2]

Publications
  • English Medieval Enamels (1930)
  • Modern Painting in England (1937)
  • Painting in England from Hogarth to Whistler (1939)

References
  1. Lee, Hermione (2014). Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 0804170495.
  2. Dennis Farr (17 May 1993). "Obituary: Mary Chamot". The Independent. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  3. Farr, Dennis. "Chamot, Mary". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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