Greta Valentine

Greta Mary Valentine née Sequeira (1907–1998). She became a muse to the painter Lamorna Birch and an obsession of Aleister Crowley. She married Birch's patron, Ranald Valentine, who was a printer in Dundee.

Life She was born in 1907 and at some point she was adopted by Nellie (born Adams) and James Henry Sequeira. Her adopted father was a dermatologist. She was educated well in the UK and in Europe. She went on to study Anthroposophy which was a spiritualist movement created by Rudolf Steiner.

In 1936 she met Aleister Crowley who had an unusual reputation as an occult magician. Symbolism within the paintings expressed his love for her. While she was in Cornwall she was visited by Aleister Crowley who was trying to woo her.

Lamorna introduced her to the printer Ranald Valentine who she would marry. Ranald died in 1956. She died in 1998.