Edward Lucie-Smith
(1933-), Art critic and writer(John) Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith
Sitter in 3 portraits
Artist of 29 portraits
Edward Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica and moved to Britain in 1946. He began his career as an education officer in the R.A.F., and then worked in advertising for ten years before becoming a freelance author. He is now an internationally known art critic and historian, who is also a published poet, an anthologist and a practising photographer. He has published more than a hundred books in all, over sixty of which are about art, and has written on art for many leading British newspapers and periodicals. His photographs are included in the collections of many museums around the world.
Peter Neville Frederick Porter
by Edward Lucie-Smith
bromide print, 1970
NPG x38795
by Edward Lucie-Smith
bromide print, April 1970
NPG x20161
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu
by Edward Lucie-Smith
bromide print, circa 1970
NPG x26695
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