Ethel Sands

American-born British artist, socialite, patron

Ethel Sands (6 July 1873 – 19 March 1962) was an American-born artist and hostess who lived in England from childhood.She studied art in Paris, where she met her life partner Anna Hope Hudson (Nan).

Her works were generally still lifes and interiors, often of Château d'Auppegard that she shared with Hudson.Sands was a Fitzroy Street Group and London Group member.

Her works are in London's National Portrait Gallery and other public collections.In 1916 she was made a British citizen.Although a major art patron, she is most remembered as a hostess for the cultural elite, including Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and Augustus John.