Ethel Sands

Ethel Sands
Sands in 1922
Born	(1873-07-06)6 July 1873 Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died	19 March 1962(1962-03-19) (aged 88) London, England[1]
Nationality	American British (from 1916)
Education	Eugène Carrière
Known for	Painting
Partner	Anna Hope Hudson

Ethel Sands (6 July 1873 – 19 March 1962) was an American-born artist and hostess who lived in England from childhood. She studied art in Paris, where she met her life partner Anna Hope Hudson. Her works were generally still lifes and interiors, often of Château d'Auppegard that she shared with Hudson. Sands was a Fitzroy Street Group and London Group member. Her works are in London's National Portrait Gallery and other public collections. In 1916, she became a naturalised British citizen. Although a major art patron and an artist, she is most remembered as a hostess for the cultural elite, including Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and Augustus John.