Osbert sitwell biography of george washington

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Best known as a writer, Osbert Sitwell also became a patron of the arts and a collector after the First World War along with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell. He established himself as a nonconformist intellectual and champion of modernism in literature, the visual arts, and music.

The child of Sir George Sitwell, an eccentric baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell, he grew up at the family ancestral house in Renishaw, Derbyshire and from at the Montegufoni Castle in Tuscany. Sitwell studied at Eton and, eager to escape his conservative upbringing, started circulating in London society before World War I. While in London, he began attending Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. During the war, he was mobilized and sent to the front in France. In , back in London, Sitwell moved into a townhouse in Chelsea with his father’s financial support; his brother eventually moved in. Followi

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