Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Novelist
Sitter associated with 112 portraits
During the interwar years, Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist following the international success of Brave New World (1932). Its success came after a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later settled in the USA. There, the tone of his writing gravitated towards pacifism and metaphysics, prompted partly by interest in Hindu Vedantist thought. These aspects of his development are evident in Ends and Means (1937). His later writing was preoccupied with the potential of human capability, notably in the autobiographical The Doors of Perception (1953), written under the influence of mescaline.
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
oil on canvas, circa 1931
NPG 6717
by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
bromide print, 26 November 1934
NPG P359
by Howard Coster
vintage chlorobromide print, 1934
NPG P714
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1936
NPG P869(17)
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by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1946
NPG P1686
by Maria Petrie (née Zimmern)
bronze head, 1959
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140505
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Madeline Clinkard; Aldous Huxley; Mark Gertler; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Marion Collier (née Huxley) (aunt)
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (brother)
Anthony Julian Huxley (nephew)
Francis Huxley (nephew)
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (brother)
Leonard Huxley (father)
Maria Huxley (née Nys) (wife)
Matthew Huxley (son)
Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather)
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