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Margot Fonteyn

(1919-1991), Ballet dancer

Dame Margot Fonteyn

Sitter in 51 portraits
Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, in 1934 Margot attended the Vic-Wells Ballet School, and by the time she was twenty had danced the lead in three of the great classics: Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She later joined Lilian Baylis's Sadlers Wells Company where she became emotionally involved with Constant Lambert (brother of the sculptor Maurice Lambert), who wrote Horoscope (1938) for her. She danced the lead in his Tiresias (1951). Fonteyn came out of semi-retirement to dance with Rudolf Nureyev at his debut with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, in 1962, and with him formed one of the greatest ballet partnerships of the twentieth century.

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Margot Fonteyn, by Angus McBean - NPG P894

Margot Fonteyn

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1951
NPG P894

Margot Fonteyn, by Maurice Lambert - NPG 6033

Margot Fonteyn

by Maurice Lambert
bronze bust, 1956
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6033

Margot Fonteyn, by Yousuf Karsh - NPG P490(32)

Margot Fonteyn

by Yousuf Karsh
bromide print, 1957
NPG P490(32)

Margot Fonteyn; John Cyril Cranko, by Lord Snowdon - NPG P1865

Margot Fonteyn; John Cyril Cranko

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 4 January 1972
NPG P1865

Margot Fonteyn, by Bern Schwartz - NPG P1167

Margot Fonteyn

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 3 May 1977
NPG P1167

'Work in Progress',  - NPG 7145

'Work in Progress'

acrylic on paper collaged on panels, 2021-2022
On display in Room 33 on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 7145

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x127566

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127566

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x127567

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127567

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x127568

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127568

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x127569

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127569

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x19229

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1936
NPG x19229

Margot Fonteyn, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x19230

Margot Fonteyn

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19230

Margot Fonteyn, Mary Honer and June Brae (June Telfer Bear), by Edward Malindine, for  Daily Herald - NPG x131125

Margot Fonteyn, Mary Honer and June Brae (June Telfer Bear)

by Edward Malindine, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 24 September 1937
NPG x131125

Margot Fonteyn, by Houston Rogers - NPG x196086

Margot Fonteyn

by Houston Rogers
gelatin silver print, 1940s?
NPG x196086

Margot Fonteyn, by Paul Tanqueray - NPG x14284

Margot Fonteyn

by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1943
NPG x14284

Margot Fonteyn, by Paul Tanqueray - NPG x14285

Margot Fonteyn

by Paul Tanqueray
matte bromide print, 1950s
NPG x14285

Margot Fonteyn, by Cecil Beaton - NPG x14079

Margot Fonteyn

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 28 October 1950
NPG x14079

Margot Fonteyn; Sir Robert Murray Helpmann, by Norman Parkinson - NPG x30080

Margot Fonteyn; Sir Robert Murray Helpmann

by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1951
NPG x30080

Violetta Elvin; Ninette de Valois; Margot Fonteyn, by Keystone Press Agency Ltd - NPG x184371

Violetta Elvin; Ninette de Valois; Margot Fonteyn

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 14 October 1954
NPG x184371

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