T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Poet
Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sitter in 66 portraits
Missouri-born, Eliot settled in England before the First World War. Working in Lloyd's Bank, he published Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), and Poems (1919), hand-printed at the Hogarth Press by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Eliot founded The Criterion in 1922, publishing The Waste Land in the first issue. In 1925 he joined Faber & Faber, and established a reputation for promoting younger writers including W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He became a British subject in 1927. Later work included Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Four Quartets (1935-42). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
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by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1947
NPG P1687
by Patrick Heron
oil on canvas, 1949
On display in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4467
by Sir Jacob Epstein
plaster cast of bust, 1951
On display in Room 33 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4440
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1956
NPG P869(12)
T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1957
NPG P891
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140847
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140849
T.S. Eliot; Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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T.S. Eliot; Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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'Sunday Afternoon' (Lord David Cecil; T.S. Eliot)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141431
Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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James Ching; David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford; Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1924
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T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1924
NPG Ax141652
by Unknown photographer
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
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by Unknown photographer
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG Ax142531
by Unknown photographer
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG Ax142532
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
NPG Ax142996
Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Lord David Cecil; Elizabeth Bowen; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, December 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot; Lady Huxley and Alberto Moravia
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, December 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot and Lady Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, December 1931
NPG Ax143430
T.S. Eliot with his sister and his cousin
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1934
NPG Ax143671
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print on card mount, January 1948
NPG x1136
(Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher); T.S. Eliot
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1956
NPG x88542
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, circa 1959
NPG x88526
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, circa 1959
NPG x88529
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, circa 1959
NPG x13783
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, circa 1959
NPG x13784
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, circa 1959
NPG x134150
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1959
NPG x88694
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1959
NPG x88695
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1959
NPG x125027
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1959
NPG x125028
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square colour transparency, circa 1959
NPG x125029
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, 23 June 1960
NPG x88256
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, 23 June 1960
NPG x88203
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, published in Harper's Bazaar, New York July 1945
NPG P190
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