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Theresa Thornycroft (1853–1947) was an English sculptor and painter. ==Biography== Theresa was a member of the Thornycroft family. Her father was Thomas Thornycroft (1815–1885) and her mother, Mary Francis (1814–1895).〔(The Peerage )〕 Her brother Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, sisters Alyce Thornycroft and Helen Thornycroft were all artists, while her brother Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company.〔 A gifted artist, she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before she turned twenty-two.〔John Bremer, ''C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918'', Lexington Books, 2012, p. 160 ()〕 She married Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895) of the Jewish Sassoon family.〔〔(The Siegfried Sassoon Collection )〕 Because she was Anglo-Catholic, he was disinherited by the Sassoon family for marrying her.〔 They had three sons: * Michael Thornycroft Sassoon (1884–1969).〔〔 *Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967).〔〔 *Hamo Watts Sassoon (1887–1915).〔〔 After they separated, she continued to live in the village of Matfield in Kent, and was immortalised in the memoirs of her son Siegfried. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theresa Thornycroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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