Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), Philosopher and social reformer
Sitter associated with 90 portraits
Grandson of the Liberal Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, Earl (Lord John) Russell, Bertrand made significant contributions to logic, epistemology and mathematics that established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century. He published his first work, An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897), at the age of 25. This was followed by The Principles of Mathematics (1903) and Principia Mathematica (1910-13). A pacifist during the First World War, he was imprisoned in 1918. Russell gave the first Reith lectures on radio in 1949. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, and became the first President of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1958.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Roger Fry
oil on canvas, circa 1923
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1945 or before
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1949
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on card, 1894
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The Wedding of Bertrand Russell and Alys Pearsall Smith
by Unknown photographer
printing-out paper print on card, 13 December 1894
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Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith); Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1907
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Hugh Cecil (Hugh Cecil Saunders)
vintage bromide print, 1910s
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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Dora Winifred Russell (née Black); Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, October 1925
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
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Patricia Helen (née Spence), Countess Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell with his children
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell with his children
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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Lady Katharine Jane Tait (née Russell); Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Howard Coster
vintage print, 1935
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
vintage print, October 1936
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Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (wife)
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