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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 Vivienne - NPG x6044

Margot Fonteyn

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1956
NPG x6044

Margot Fonteyn, by Vivienne - NPG x87934

Margot Fonteyn

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1956
NPG x87934

Margot Fonteyn as Cinderella, by Unknown photographer - NPG x198415

Margot Fonteyn as Cinderella

by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1957
NPG x198415

Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, by Michael Peto - NPG x137680

Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn

by Michael Peto
modern bromide print from original negative, February 1962
NPG x137680

Margot Fonteyn, by Roy Round - NPG x199685

Margot Fonteyn

by Roy Round
bromide print, 1964
NPG x199685

Margot Fonteyn, by Alan Bergman - NPG x125577

Margot Fonteyn

by Alan Bergman
selenium-toned bromide print, 1972
NPG x125577

Margot Fonteyn, by Felix Fonteyn - NPG x184377

Margot Fonteyn

by Felix Fonteyn
bromide press print, 1979
NPG x184377

Image currently unavailable owing to copyright restrictions

Margot Fonteyn

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1946
NPG x136164

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Margot Fonteyn

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1946
NPG x136165

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Margot Fonteyn; Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1946
NPG x136166

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Margot Fonteyn; Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1946
NPG x136167

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Margot Fonteyn

probably by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1946
NPG x136168

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Paddy Stephenson; Margot Fonteyn; Julia Farron; Michael George Somes

possibly by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, September-October 1948
NPG x136171

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Group on Avenue Raymond Poincaré in Paris

possibly by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, September-October 1948
NPG x136218

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Margot Fonteyn

by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 21 July 1948
NPG x137537

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Margot Fonteyn

by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 18 May 1949
NPG x193354

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Group at the boat race

probably by Virginia Surtees, or by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, 1 April 1950
NPG x136173

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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Margot Fonteyn

by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1 April 1950
NPG x136223

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