Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt (1879-1961), Conductor
Sitter associated with 17 portraits
Conductor. The grandson of the patentee of 'Beecham's Powders', he studied music and in 1906 founded the New Symphony Orchestra. In 1911 he presented Diaghilev's Russian Ballet, and in 1929 created the first Delius Festival in London. He founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1932, and formed the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1946. In the 1950s Beecham was much in demand as a conductor in the USA, Paris and London, where he was closely associated with the Promenade concerts held at the Royal Albert Hall . Something of his flamboyant personality is conveyed here.
by Ernest Procter
pencil, 1929
NPG 4975(11)
Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting 'A Mass of Life' at the Queen's Hall, 1929
by Ernest Procter
composite of 16 pencil studies, 1929
NPG 6108
by Ernest Procter
pencil, 1929
NPG 4975(9)
by Ernest Procter
pencil, 1929
NPG 4975(10)
by David Wynne
bronze head and separate hands, 1957
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4221
by Gordon Anthony
bromide print, circa 1935
NPG x44776
by Felix H. Man (Hans Baumann)
bromide print, 1936
NPG x1150
by Derek Allen
bromide print, 1948
NPG x24101
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt; Betty, Lady Beecham (née Morgan Humby)
by Peter Keen
vintage bromide print, 1958
NPG x125332
by Peter Keen
vintage bromide print, 1958
NPG x125335
by Mark Wayner (Weiner)
lithograph, published 1931
NPG D23316
by Milein Cosman
etching, late 1950s
NPG D31568
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by Douglas Glass
vintage bromide print, 8 November 1959
NPG x134993
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