Mary Chamot


Mary Chamot was an English art historian and museum curator, and the first woman curator at the Tate Gallery.

Biography

Mary Chamot was born on 8 November 1899 in Strelna, near Saint Petersburg, the only child of Alfred Edward Chamot, an administrator of the Imperial Palace Gardens at Strelna, and Elisabeth Chamot, of Dutch and German origin.
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.
In 1949, she became the first woman curator at London's Tate Gallery.
Her friends included Stanley Spencer, Gilbert Spencer, the Carlines, Lord Methuen, Edward Bawden and Jim Ede.
Chamot died in 10 May 1993 in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England.

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