Early years Ethel Maude Warwick was a daughter of Frank and Maude Warwick, and was born in
Hardingstone, Northampton, on 13 October 1882. Her education began in
Margate and
Hampstead, but by the early 1890s she was studying to become an artist at the
London Polytechnic. Ethel became an
artists model to help pay for her tuition at the London Polytechnic, Through him she became a favoured model for several artists, including
John William Godward and
Linley Sambourne, for whom she posed nude in a series of photographic studies. She was also sketched by
James McNeill Whistler.
Acting career Despite training to become an artist, Warwick instead began to take part in acting lessons at
Henry Neville’s acting school during the late 1890s, and in July 1900 she made her debut by starring in
The Corsican Brothers as Emilie de L'Esparre at the Grande Theatre, in
Fulham. Though still an artists model, Warwick continued to pose for many studies, photographs and portraits. During this time, she was most notably posing for Herbert Draper. However, on 24 March 1906, Warwick married Edmund Waller, and therefore discontinued her modelling. presumably due to lung cancer. ==Selected filmography==