John Galsworthy (1867-1933), Novelist and playwright
Sitter in 39 portraits
Playwright and novelist. Galsworthy's first play, The Silver Box, appeared at the Court Theatre in 1906, the same year that the first novel in the Forsyte Saga series was published. A prolific and popular writer in a realist vein, he refused a knighthood in 1918, but was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1929 and in 1932 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Theodore Spicer-Simson
bronze medallion, 1921
NPG 3649
by David Evans
bronze bust, 1929
On display in Room 29 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4208
by Alvin Langdon Coburn
photogravure, 18 October 1909
NPG Ax7790
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
NPG Ax39222
by Alexander Stewart ('Sasha')
bromide print, 1920s-1930s
NPG x28345
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
whole-plate autochrome, 1922
NPG x7178
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1926
NPG x13612
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
matte bromide print on photographer's folder, 3 October 1929
NPG x5100
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1929
NPG x14353
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
bromide print, 3 October 1929
NPG x15167
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