Lilian Holt did not have her first solo exhibition until she was in her early seventies (at the Woodstock Gallery, London). Her work as a painter had often been interrupted, either by financial necessity (when she took office jobs) or by her support for her second husband, David Bornberg, whose career took precedence over her own. Holt trained at Putney Art School and the Regent Street Polytechnic. Her first husband was a London art dealer. Living with him in the 1920s, she had no time to paint, but was able to study work by Sickert, Epstein, Kramer and Bomberg at first hand. She became close to Bomberg in the late 1920s, but did not start painting properly again until 1945. Holt worked in the life room at the Borough Polytechnic. She was a founder member of the Borough Group (other woman members included her daughter Dinora Mendelson, from her first marriage, and Dorothy Mead}, and the later artists' Lilian Holt did not have her first solo exhibition until she was in her early seventies (at the Woodstock Gallery, London). Her work as a painter had often been interrupted, either by financial necessity (when she took office jobs) or by her support for her second husband. David Bornberg, whose career took precedence over her own. Holt trained at Putney Art School and the Regent Street Polytechnic. Her first husband was a London art dealer. Living with him in the 1920s, she had no time to paint, but was able to study work by Sickert, Epstein, Kramer and Bomberg at first hand. She became close to Bomberg in the late 1920s, but did not start painting properly again until 1945. Holt worked in the life room at the Borough Polytechnic. She was a founder member of the Borough Group.
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