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Stephen Haweis was an artist who studied in London, Paris and Florence. He was the youngest son of Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838-1901), who was the rector of St. James Church, Marylebone, London, and Mary Eliza Haweis (1848-1898), the daughter of noted Victorian portrait artist Thomas Musgrove Joy. Haweis studied art in Paris with Alphonse Mucha and Eugene Carriere. After becoming interested in photography Stephen met Rodin, and subsequently photographed many of the sculptor's pieces. In 1903 he married the poet Mina Loy, but they divorced in 1917. After losing much of his inheritance in the stock market crash of 1929 Haweis moved to the West Indian island of Dominica where he studied and painted tropical fish. He also wrote for local newspapers and worked on a variety of writing projects until his death. The UBC Archives hold some of the Haweis Family fonds (1788-1957); the remainder of Stephen Haweis' papers are held by Columbia University.

Born: 1878
Died: 1969