Ursula Tyrwhitt

Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman.

Biography Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex. Her father was Henry Mervyn Tyrwhitt, the vicar of Nazeing, and his wife Jacqueline Frances Tyrwhitt (, the daughter of William Bruère Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes). She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy. John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the Yale Center for British Art in the Paul Mellon Collection. Tyrwhitt made her only known sculpture while visiting Gwen John in France. Examples of her work are displayed in The National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and in the British Council collection. She lived in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and also in Oxford, Oxfordshire.

Trywhitt died in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in 1966.