Stephen Tomlin
b. 1901, United Kingdom
d. 1937
Described by Virginia Woolf as ‘the devastation of all hearts’, Stephen Tomlin was the Bloomsbury group’s primary sculptor. He immortalised the faces of Bloomsbury’s best-known characters, including Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf herself.
The youngest son of five children born to Lord Tomlin of Ash and Marion Waterfield, Tomlin was a young man possessed of artistic sensibilities. He attended Harrow School for Boys and briefly studied at New College, Oxford but left after just two terms. Academia didn’t suit the young bohemian. He was prone to focus on his talents as a gifted poet, actor and musician, although he found his metier as a sculptor.