Roger Fry (1866-1934), Critic and painter
Sitter associated with 17 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, Fry wrote articles for the Burlington Magazine which he helped find, and until 1910 acted as European adviser to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1910 he was closely linked with Bloomsbury. Following the two Post-Impressionism exhibitions he organised in 1910 and 1912-13 he was a leading figure among the avant-garde. In 1913, he founded the Omega workshops, which applied new principles of mass, line, form and colour to the production of furniture, fabrics and jewellery. Active as a painter, he also continued to write, producing eight books in the last ten years of his life, notably Transformations (1927) and Cézanne (1928).
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
oil on panel, 1912
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6684
by Sir Henry Maximilian ('Max') Beerbohm
pen and watercolour, 1931
NPG 3858
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 27 February 1913
NPG Ax7798
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915
NPG Ax160972
by A.C. Cooper
sepia-toned vintage print, 28 February 1918
NPG x13109
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1930
NPG x14280
by Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
oil on cardboard, late 1920s or early 1930s
NPG D215
by Cicely Mary Hey
pen and ink, 1933 or before
NPG D34004
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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