Marika became estranged from Brusset and found a new love in the English man Rodney Phillips. The couple had a child David Ellie Phillips, and purchased a manor home in Dorchester, Athelhampton. In 1959 Marevna moved to England and lived with the new family. Marevna began to depict the family members and the community of Dorchester.
Photo: Marevna arrives in London 208
Marie Vorobieff Marevna, Russian, 1892-1984
Portrait of Rodney Phillips, seated reading a book;
pencil with blue ink on laid, signed, inscribed, titled and dated 1949, 26.7 x 21cm: together with one other pencil and coloured pencil on paper by the same artist, of the same subject, 26.7 x 21cm (2) (unframed)