Ethel Maude Warwick (1882 – 1951). British stage actress who later appeared in several films.
She became an artists model to help pay her tuition at the London
Polytechnic, which led to her meeting Herbert Draper, who used her as a
model for several of his paintings.Through him she became a favoured
model for several artists, including John William Godward and Linley
Sambourne, for whom she posed nude in a series of photographic studies.
She was also sketched by James McNeill Whistler.
She began training
as an actress at Henry Neville's acting school in the late 1890's, and
first appeared on stage at the Grande Theatre in Fulham in July 1900 as
Emilie de L'Esparre in
The Corsican Brothers.
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The Lament for Icarus, by Herbert James Draper (Warwick is the woman holding Icarus in her lap)
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| Portrait of Miss Ethel Warwick, by Philip Wilson Steer |
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| Convalescent (Ethel Warwick), by Philip Wilson Steer |
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