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She was the daughter of the physician [[Robert Oswald Moon]] and his wife Ethel Waddington (died 1933), daughter of Major-General Thomas Waddington of [[Pangbourne]], and sister of [[Penderel Moon]] the historian.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dancy |first1=John |title=Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts |date=1995 |publisher=Michael Russell |page=45 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=39897|first=Philip|last=Mason|title=Moon, Sir (Edward) Penderel}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kelly's|first=|title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes|year=1943|publisher=Kelly's Directories|page=1298}}</ref> Her mother was a suffragist and artist.<ref name="Dillon">{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=P. |title=A social and literary network in North Berkshire around the time of the First World War |journal=Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets |date=2018 |volume=17 |pages=103-113 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325119675_A_social_and_literary_network_in_North_Berkshire_around_the_time_of_the_First_World_War/link/5af94b440f7e9b026bf6dfd7/download}}</ref> <!-- The artist Vera Waddington (1876–1954) was her aunt. --> |
She was the daughter of the physician [[Robert Oswald Moon]] and his wife Ethel Waddington (died 1933), daughter of Major-General Thomas Waddington of [[Pangbourne]], and sister of [[Penderel Moon]] the historian.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dancy |first1=John |title=Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts |date=1995 |publisher=Michael Russell |page=45 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=39897|first=Philip|last=Mason|title=Moon, Sir (Edward) Penderel}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Kelly's|first=|title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes|year=1943|publisher=Kelly's Directories|page=1298}}</ref> Her mother was a suffragist and artist.<ref name="Dillon">{{cite journal |last1=Dillon |first1=P. |title=A social and literary network in North Berkshire around the time of the First World War |journal=Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets |date=2018 |volume=17 |pages=103-113 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325119675_A_social_and_literary_network_in_North_Berkshire_around_the_time_of_the_First_World_War/link/5af94b440f7e9b026bf6dfd7/download}}</ref> <!-- The artist Vera Waddington (1876–1954) was her aunt. --> |
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Noël was a pupil at the Farmhouse School, Mayortorne Manor near [[Wendover]], run by [[Isabel Fry]];<ref name="Dancy33">{{cite book |last1=Dancy |first1=John |title=Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts |date=1995 |publisher=Michael Russell |pages=33–34 |language=en}}</ref> her mother had known Constance Masefield (née Crommelin), Fry's friend, during the 1890s.<ref name="Dillon"/> There she learned Latin, and was taught Greek individually at her father's request. She acted there in a production of ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'', in [[Gilbert Murray]]'s translation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Beatrice Curtis |title=Isabel Fry, 1869-1958: Portrait of a Great Teacher |date=1960 |publisher=A. Barker |pages=101–108 |language=en}}</ref> She entered the [[University of Oxford]] as a non-college student, lodging with [[David George Hogarth]]. Following the ''[[Literae humaniores]]'' course from 1922, she completed "Mods". She was then advised to transfer to the Diploma in Classical Archaeology.<ref name="Dancy33"/> |
Noël was a pupil at the Farmhouse School, Mayortorne Manor near [[Wendover]], run by [[Isabel Fry]];<ref name="Dancy33">{{cite book |last1=Dancy |first1=John |title=Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts |date=1995 |publisher=Michael Russell |pages=33–34 |language=en}}</ref> her mother had known Constance Masefield (née Crommelin), Fry's friend, during the 1890s.<ref name="Dillon"/> There she learned Latin, and was taught Greek individually at her father's request. She acted there in a production of ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'', in [[Gilbert Murray]]'s translation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Beatrice Curtis |title=Isabel Fry, 1869-1958: Portrait of a Great Teacher |date=1960 |publisher=A. Barker |pages=101–108 |language=en}}</ref> She entered the [[University of Oxford]] as a non-college student, lodging with [[David George Hogarth]]. Following the ''[[Literae humaniores]]'' course from 1922, she completed "Mods". She was then advised to transfer to the Diploma in Classical Archaeology.<ref name="Dancy33"/> In this early period at Oxford, [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]] wooed her by letter.<ref name="Dancy35">{{cite book |last1=Dancy |first1=John |title=Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts |date=1995 |publisher=Michael Russell |page=35 |language=en}}</ref> |
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Socially, she met at this time classical scholars including [[Cyril Bailey]]. She fell in with [[Balliol College]] students, through Hugh Keen, father of [[Maurice Keen]].<ref name="Dancy33"/><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=105559|first=C. J.|last=Keen, Maurice Hugh}}</ref> In 1926 she acted the role of Leader of the chorus in a Balliol production of ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytus]]''. The title role was played by [[Walter Oakeshott]], who proposed marriage to her at the end of the year.<ref name="Dancy33"/> |
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In 1926, also, Noël was the top student in the Diploma in Classical Archaeology, and was awarded the Gilchrist Scholarship to the [[British School at Rome]].<ref name="Dancy33"/> She was there for four months from January 1927. With the support of [[John Beazley]] she worked on Greek vases from southern Italy.<ref name="Dancy35"/> |
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| ⚫ | Noël applied Beazley's method of separation of individual painters to Italian vase painting. It was an application of [[connoisseurship]], and some attributions have been reconsidered since.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carpenter |first1=T. H. |last2=Lynch |first2=K. M. |last3=Robinson |first3=E. G. D. |title=The Italic People of Ancient Apulia |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-04186-8 |page=124 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=31w3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 |language=en}}</ref> |
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Noël Rose Oakeshott, née Moon (1904–1976) was a British classical archaeologist.
Life
She was the daughter of the physician Robert Oswald Moon and his wife Ethel Waddington (died 1933), daughter of Major-General Thomas Waddington of Pangbourne, and sister of Penderel Moon the historian.[1][2][3] Her mother was a suffragist and artist.[4]
Noël was a pupil at the Farmhouse School, Mayortorne Manor near Wendover, run by Isabel Fry;[5] her mother had known Constance Masefield (née Crommelin), Fry's friend, during the 1890s.[4] There she learned Latin, and was taught Greek individually at her father's request. She acted there in a production of Iphigenia in Tauris, in Gilbert Murray's translation.[6] She entered the University of Oxford as a non-college student, lodging with David George Hogarth. Following the Literae humaniores course from 1922, she completed "Mods". She was then advised to transfer to the Diploma in Classical Archaeology.[5] In this early period at Oxford, Richard Hughes wooed her by letter.[7]
Socially, she met at this time classical scholars including Cyril Bailey. She fell in with Balliol College students, through Hugh Keen, father of Maurice Keen.[5][8] In 1926 she acted the role of Leader of the chorus in a Balliol production of Hippolytus. The title role was played by Walter Oakeshott, who proposed marriage to her at the end of the year.[5]
In 1926, also, Noël was the top student in the Diploma in Classical Archaeology, and was awarded the Gilchrist Scholarship to the British School at Rome.[5] She was there for four months from January 1927. With the support of John Beazley she worked on Greek vases from southern Italy.[7]
Noël applied Beazley's method of separation of individual painters to Italian vase painting. It was an application of connoisseurship, and some attributions have been reconsidered since.[9]
Works and influence
Her essay Some Early South Italian Vase-Painters. With a brief indication of the later history of Italiote vase-painting from 1929 remains a basic work in the field. The pioneering work of Beazley and Moon was followed up by Arthur Dale Trendall.[10]
Family
She was the sister of Edward Penderel Moon, and married educational administrator and art historian Walter Oakeshott in 1928. Beazley named the so-called Oakeshott painter after the couple.
Notes
- ^ Dancy, John (1995). Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts. Michael Russell. p. 45.
- ^ Mason, Philip. "Moon, Sir (Edward) Penderel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39897. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Kelly's (1943). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. p. 1298.
- ^ a b Dillon, P. (2018). "A social and literary network in North Berkshire around the time of the First World War". Journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets. 17: 103–113.
- ^ a b c d e Dancy, John (1995). Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts. Michael Russell. pp. 33–34.
- ^ Brown, Beatrice Curtis (1960). Isabel Fry, 1869-1958: Portrait of a Great Teacher. A. Barker. pp. 101–108.
- ^ a b Dancy, John (1995). Walter Oakeshott: A diversity of gifts. Michael Russell. p. 35.
- ^ Keen, Maurice Hugh, C. J. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105559.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - ^ Carpenter, T. H.; Lynch, K. M.; Robinson, E. G. D. (2014). The Italic People of Ancient Apulia. Cambridge University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-107-04186-8.
- ^ AO, Professor Maxwell R. Bennett (2019). The Search for Knowledge and Understanding. Sydney University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-74210-450-8.