Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey
(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter associated with 134 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922-1923
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Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1922
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Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print, 1922
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922-1923
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Lytton Strachey; Walter James Redfern Turner
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, mid 1920s
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Francis Frederick Locker Birrell; Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, mid 1920s
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by Kyrle Leng
bromide snapshot print, mid 1920s
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possibly by Dora Carrington
snapshot negative, mid 1920s
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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Strachey
Related People
Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
Christopher Strachey (nephew)
James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
Sir John Strachey (uncle)
John Strachey (nephew)
Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
Marjorie Strachey (sister)
Oliver Strachey (brother)
(Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
Ralph Strachey (brother)
Sir Richard Strachey (father)
Richard John Strachey (brother)
Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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