Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), Ballet dancer
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Sitter in 40 portraits
Ballerina. Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, in 1934 she attended Sadlers Wells Ballet School. Fonteyn (her stage name) joined Lilian Baylis's Sadlers Wells Company. There she became emotionally involved with Constant Lambert, brother of the sculptor, who wrote Horoscope (1938) for her; she also danced the lead in his Tiresias (1951). She 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 the greatest ballet partnership of the century.
by Maurice Lambert
bronze bust, 1956
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6033
by Bernard Lee ('Bern') Schwartz
dye transfer print, 3 May 1977
NPG P1167
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127566
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127567
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127568
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 31 December 1935
NPG x127569
by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 1936
NPG x19229
by Bassano
whole-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19230
Margot Fonteyn, Mary Honer and June Brae (June Telfer Bear)
by Edward George W. Malindine, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 24 September 1937
NPG x131125
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x125355
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 28 October 1950
NPG x14079
Margot Fonteyn; Sir Robert Murray Helpmann
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1951
NPG x30080
by Baron Studios
bromide print, circa 1961
NPG x16221
by Alan Bergman
selenium-toned bromide print, 1972
NPG x125577
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