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.
(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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United States
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- Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor
Until 24 November - Patrick Heron: Studies for a portrait of T.S. Eliot
Until 22 September
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