John Galsworthy
(1867-1933), Novelist and playwrightSitter in 44 portraits
Novelist and playwright; Galsworthy began his literary career with a volume of short stories, From the Four Winds (1897). He reached his maturity as an author in 1906 with the publication of the first novel in the trilogy The Forsyte Saga, considered to be a critique of Victorianism. In the same year his first play, The Silver Box, appeared at the Court Theatre in London. A popular and prolific writer in the realist vein, he refused a knighthood in 1918, but was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929 and in 1932 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Theodore Spicer-Simson
bronze medallion, 1921
NPG 3649
by David Evans
bronze bust, 1961, based on a work of 1929
NPG 4208
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 18 October 1909
NPG Ax7790
by Culver Pictures Ltd
bromide press print, 1910s
NPG x194423
by E.O. Hoppé, published by George G. Harrap & Company, printed by The Vandyck Printers Ltd
photogravure, 1911, published 1915
NPG Ax199044
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39222
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1922
NPG x7178
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1924
NPG x162434
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1926
NPG x1843
Ada Person Galsworthy (née Cooper); John Galsworthy
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1926
NPG x194093
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1926
NPG x13612
by Sasha (Alexander Stewart)
bromide print, July 1927
NPG x28345
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's folder, 3 October 1929
NPG x5100
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1929
NPG x14353
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 3 October 1929
NPG x15167
by Olive Edis
bromide print on photographer's card mount, 3 October 1929
NPG x16355
Ada Person Galsworthy (née Cooper); John Galsworthy
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, circa 1930
NPG x184357
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1931
NPG x13610
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1935
NPG Ax136158
by William Strang, printed by David Strang
etching, 1920
NPG D34273
by Robert Stewart Sherriffs
ink and pencil, probably late 1920s
NPG D18337
by Edmund Joseph Sullivan
etching, 1930
NPG D34272
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