Theresa Thornycroft (1853 – July 1947)[1] was an English sculptor and painter.
Biography
Theresa was a member of the Thornycroft family. Her father was Thomas Thornycroft (1815–1885) and her mother, Mary Francis (1814–1895).[2] Her brother Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sisters Alyce Thornycroft and Helen Thornycroft were all artists, while her brother Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company.[2]
A gifted artist, she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before she turned twenty-two.[3]
She married Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895) of the Jewish Sassoon family.[2][4] Because she was Anglo-Catholic, he was disinherited by the Sassoon family for marrying her.[4] They had three sons:
Michael Thornycroft Sassoon (1884–1969).[2][4]
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967).[2][4]
Hamo Watts Sassoon (1887–1915).[2][4]
After they separated, she continued to live in the village of Matfield in Kent, and was immortalised in the memoirs of her son Siegfried.
References
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches: a biography (1918-1967) (London: Routledge, 2003). ISBN 0-7156-2971-9. p301
The Peerage
John Bremer, C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918, Lexington Books, 2012, p. 160 [1]
The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
Hart-Davis, Rupert. "Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35953. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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