The artist and connoisseur Roger Fry was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. He introduced Post-Impressionist painting to Britain by exhibiting work by Gauguin, Matisse and Van Gogh while they were still shocking to English audiences. Fry, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell ran the Omega Workshops at 33 Fitzroy Square from 1913 to 1919, employing artists to decorate and design furniture, textiles and decorative schemes.