Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark (1903-1983), Art historian
Sitter in 26 portraits
Artist of 1 portrait
Art historian and museum director. Clark was born in London, the son of a textile industrialist in Paisley, brought up in Suffolk, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He became Keeper of Fine Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1931-3) and, at 31, the youngest Director of the National Gallery (1934-45), and Slade Professor of Fine Art (1946-50). In 1939 he persuaded the Ministry of Information to keep professional artists out of the front line. He became a household name with the television series Civilisation (1969), which brought the history of western culture to a vast new audience. Knighted in 1938, he was made a life peer in 1969, when Private Eye called him Lord Clark of Civilisation.
by Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark
chalk on board, circa 1918
NPG 6055
by Graham Vivian Sutherland
oil on canvas, circa 1962-1964
NPG 5244
by Graham Vivian Sutherland
oil on canvas, 1963-1964
On display in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5243
by Bernard Lee ('Bern') Schwartz
dye transfer print, 7 April 1977
NPG P1153
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1934
NPG x10516
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1934
NPG x10517
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1934
NPG x10518
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1934
NPG x10519
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x10827
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x10828
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x10829
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1955
NPG x14047
by Walter Bird
bromide print on card mount, February 1959
NPG x165789
by Janet Stone
bromide print, June 1964
NPG x14262
by Roger George Clark
bromide print, 14 September 1977
NPG x15101
by Cecil Beaton
pencil, 1969
NPG D17947(83)
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, published in Harper's Bazaar December 1944
NPG P187
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