Julia Mavrogordato

Julia Mary Mavrogordato (1903-1992, married surname Playfair) was an English print-maker and painter.

Personal life Mavrogordato was born in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on 28 March 1903. Her mother, Elsie Napier-Bell (1876-1958) was an artist and illustrator from New Zealand, and her father, Eustratius Emmanuel Mavrogordato (1870-1946), was of Greek descent, a barrister and journalist, and for some time the chief tennis correspondent of The Times. She was educated at Headington High School for Girls in Oxford and at St Hilda's Hall, Oxford, where she gained a BA in 1925. He later remarried and had two children by his second wife, but was divorced by the time of his death. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2 prints: Gone to ground and Sailing) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (5 prints: Evening, Norway, Calling hounds, Sailing, Autumn, Olympia) Aberdeen Art Gallery (4 prints: Orpheus, Autumn Morning, In the Cotswolds, In Covert) Brooklyn Museum (3 prints: North Wind, Olympia, The Piste) National Gallery of Australia (1 print: Black Swans) Victoria and Albert Museum (Parakeets, menu card for the Orient Line)