Iris Tree
(1897-1968), Poet, actress and painter; daughter of Sir Herbert Beerbohm TreeIris Tree (Iris Winifred Reine Daphne Ledebur (née Beerbohm-Tree, later Moffat))
Sitter in 6 portraits
Iris Tree is a neglected avant-garde icon. The daughter of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she studied at the Slade School alongside the modernist writer Nancy Cunard and became associated with bohemian circles. She contributed poems to the Sitwell’s Wheels anthology (1916-21), and was a popular artist's muse, sitting for members of the Bloomsbury group, Augustus John and Jacob Epstein. She continued to perform, appearing in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) as herself.
by Pacific & Atlantic Photos Ltd
bromide press print, 1925
NPG x135064
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, June 1965
NPG x14221
Group outside the 'the British Ambassador's residence in Rome, the Villa Wolkonsky'
by Unknown photographer
colour snapshot print, May 1955
NPG x136235
by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
colour snapshot print, May 1955
NPG x136236
Related People
- Felicity Cory-Wright (née Tree) (sister)
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (father)
- Maud (née Holt), Lady Beerbohm Tree (mother)
- Viola Tree (sister)
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