Charlotte Johnson Wahl
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| Born | Charlotte Offlow Fawcett May 1942 (age 82) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
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| Parent(s) | James Fawcett Frances Lowe |
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Charlotte Maria Offlow Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett; born May 1942)[1] is a British artist.[2] She is the mother of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.[3][4][5]
Early life and education
Born Charlotte Offlow Fawcett in Oxford, Charlotte Johnson Wahl is the daughter of Frances (née Lowe) and James Fawcett.[6] She was the granddaughter of Americans Elias Avery Lowe, a palaeographer of Russian Jewish descent,[7] and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, a translator. She read English at Oxford University, and was the first married female undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall. She interrupted her studies to go to the US with her husband Stanley Johnson whom she met at Oxford and married in Marylebone, London in 1963. She later returned and was awarded a second-class honours degree.[8]
Paintings
Johnson Wahl is recorded as having "made her name as a professional portrait painter" for the likes of Crispin Tickell, Joanna Lumley, Jilly Cooper, and Simon Jenkins, but also paints landscapes which have been described as echoing the Vorticist style.[9]
She continues to paint. Her paintings sell for £1,000 to £5,000.[3] Two of Wahl's paintings are in the collection of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind; another two are in the collections of Oxford University colleges.[10]
Personal life
Johnson Wahl is the mother of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the MP Jo Johnson, the journalist Rachel Johnson, and the entrepreneur Leo Johnson. Charlotte and Stanley divorced in 1979. Johnson Wahl then married American professor Nicholas Wahl in 1988, but was widowed in 1996. Johnson Wahl was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 40.[8]
References
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External links
- Charlotte Johnson Wahl - Home of Johnson Wahl's 2015 exhibition
- Mall Galleries: Charlotte Johnson Wahl - Mall Galleries on Johnson Wahl
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- Living people
- 20th-century English painters
- 21st-century English painters
- English people of American descent
- English people of Russian-Jewish descent
- English portrait painters
- Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- People with Parkinson's disease
- 1942 births
- English women painters
- 20th-century British women artists
- 21st-century British women artists
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