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 Bassano
vintage print, 1936
NPG x84659
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
vintage print, 1936
NPG x84660
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
vintage print, 1936
NPG x84661
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
vintage print, 1936
NPG x84662
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
vintage print, 1936
NPG x84663
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 23 October 1936
NPG x81293
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 23 October 1936
NPG x81294
Patricia Helen (née Spence), Countess Russell; Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 29 June 1937
NPG x37461
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1953
NPG x131164
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1953
NPG x13796
Jacob Epstein with Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1953
NPG x133292
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Jacob Epstein
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1953
NPG x136750
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; Jacob Epstein
by Ida Kar
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1953
On display in Room 33 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x136751
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Howard Coster
print, 1954
NPG x2095
World Scientists conference at the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government, 1956
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1956
NPG x136842
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 18 February 1961
NPG x129580
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 18 February 1961
NPG x131162
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell at an anti-nuclear demonstration
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 18 February 1961
NPG x131163
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Pamela Chandler
modern bromide print from original negative, May 1962
NPG x88831
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
by Geoffrey Davien
sculptoon, ceramic, 1963
NPG D2733
Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (wife)
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