Biography
Irene Wyatt (b. Acton, London 1903 - d. Devon, UK 1987) was the daughter of art teacher and designer Lionel Wyatt. In 1921–4 she attended Royal Academy Schools after preliminary training at Hammersmith Art School and Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art. Her teachers included Walter Sickert, Ernest Jackson and Richard Jack. In 1927 she married the sculptor John Smith, but they split in 1938. From the late 1920s Wyatt showed at RA and the Leicester, Goupil and Redfern Galleries and she had two solo exhibitions at Beaux Arts Gallery, 1934–6. During 1938 she toured South Africa, having an exhibition in Johannesburg. In the 1950s Wyatt often visited Spain. As well as a solo show at Hanover Gallery, she had one at Ditchling Gallery, Sussex, in 1962, and at Chenil Gallery in 1987. Piano Nobile Fine Paintings, Richmond, held a retrospective in 1990. From 1971–87 Wyatt lived in Devon, latterly wheelchair-bound and with poor eyesight.
