T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), Poet
Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sitter in 66 portraits
Missouri-born, Eliot settled in England before the First World War. Working in Lloyd's Bank, he published Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), and Poems (1919), hand-printed at the Hogarth Press by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Eliot founded The Criterion in 1922, publishing The Waste Land in the first issue. In 1925 he joined Faber & Faber, and established a reputation for promoting younger writers including W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He became a British subject in 1927. Later work included Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Four Quartets (1935-42). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
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by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1947
NPG P1687
by Patrick Heron
oil on canvas, 1949
On display in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4467
by Sir Jacob Epstein
plaster cast of bust, 1951
On display in Room 33 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4440
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1956
NPG P869(12)
T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1957
NPG P891
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140844
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140846
Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140845
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140847
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140848
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140849
T.S. Eliot; Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140851
Julian Ottoline Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140901
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140902
Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140903
T.S. Eliot; Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140904
Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140905
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- Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor
Until 24 November - Patrick Heron: Studies for a portrait of T.S. Eliot
Until 22 September
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- Only Connect - T.S. Eliot <> Barbara Hepworth
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