Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Novelist
Sitter associated with 112 portraits
During the interwar years, Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist following the international success of Brave New World (1932). Its success came after a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later settled in the USA. There, the tone of his writing gravitated towards pacifism and metaphysics, prompted partly by interest in Hindu Vedantist thought. These aspects of his development are evident in Ends and Means (1937). His later writing was preoccupied with the potential of human capability, notably in the autobiographical The Doors of Perception (1953), written under the influence of mescaline.
Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Matthew Huxley; Mimi Gielgud
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1930
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Aldous Huxley; Matthew Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1930
NPG Ax143187
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1930
NPG x12110
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by Dorothy Wilding
vintage press print, 1930
NPG x135934
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 29 September 1931
NPG x127542
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1932
NPG x144198
by Howard Coster
cream-toned bromide print on card mount, 1934
NPG x10664
by Howard Coster
vintage bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax136126
Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143971
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143972
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143973
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143974
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143975
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143976
Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
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by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, 1938
NPG x135929
Aldous Huxley, Maria Huxley (née Nys), Matthew Huxley
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by Unknown photographer
vintage press print, 1938
NPG x135933
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126646
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Related People
Marion Collier (née Huxley) (aunt)
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (brother)
Anthony Julian Huxley (nephew)
Francis Huxley (nephew)
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (brother)
Leonard Huxley (father)
Maria Huxley (née Nys) (wife)
Matthew Huxley (son)
Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather)
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