Iris Tree

Iris Tree (1897 - 1968) was a English poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was her father. She was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists' model, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal. She was photographed by Man Ray. She ran with Nancy Cunard for a time, in a set at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant of Rudolph Stulik; and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s.

Reference

• The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree (1974) Daphne Vivian Fielding