Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Composer
(Edward) Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten
Sitter associated with 111 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
Born in Lowestoft, Britten was taught by Frank Bridge and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1930. Britten and Pears emigrated to the USA in 1939, returning in 1942. Peter Grimes, the first of Britten's ten operas, was written for Pears, designed by Kenneth Green for the reopening of Sadler's Wells in 1945. Billy Budd (1951) was commissioned for the Festival of Britain and the War Requiem (1962) for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral. Lifelong partners, they started the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and in 1972 founded the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies.
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett; Benjamin Britten
by Erich Auerbach
bromide print, 1960
NPG x15239
by Kurt Hutton (Kurt Hubschman)
bromide print, 1960s
NPG x15243
Phillida Gili (née Stone); Benjamin Britten
by Janet Stone
bromide print, 1960s
NPG x23328
Benjamin Britten with Peter Pears, Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich and Marion Harewood
by E.I. Iavno
bromide print, 1963
NPG x15245
Benjamin Britten and other musicians
by E.I. Iavno
bromide print, March 1963
NPG x15246
Mstislav Rostropovich; Benjamin Britten
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1964
NPG x15247
Peter Pears; Imogen Clare Holst; Benjamin Britten
by Axel Poignant
bromide print, 1964
NPG x15250
Benjamin Britten; Ethel Bridge; Frank Bridge
by Unknown photographer
snapshot print
NPG x15184
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten
bromide print
NPG x15227
Elizabeth Britten; Benjamin Britten
by Claremont Photo Stores
postcard print, circa 1930
NPG x15181
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