Gwen Raverat

British artist and writer Gwen Raverat was a granddaughter of the evolutionist Charles Darwin (1809-82) who became known as a woodcut artist and co-founder of the British Society of Wood Engravers. She was married to the French painter Jacques Raverat and they later settled in Nice. After his death, Raverat returned to her hometown of Cambridge and wrote her memoirs. In 2004 her grandson William Pryor revealed that the Raverats had an intensive correspondence with famous British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

Raverat studied at the Slade School of Art and illustrated numerous books with her post-Impressionist woodcuts. She created two woodcuts depicting the game of Bowls during her time in the South of France in the 1920s: Bowls Players in sunlight, Vence and Bowl Players/Joueurs de Boules (10 x 15 cm).