Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), Poet
Dame Edith Sitwell
Sitter associated with 52 portraits
The sister of the writers Sacheverall and Osbert Sitwell, her first volume of poems, The Mother, was published in 1915. In collaboration with Osbert, she wrote Twentieth Century Harlequinade (1916). As editor of Wheels, 1916-21, she encouraged Modernist writers. Façade, her poem set to William Walton's music, established the Sitwells as a cultural phenomenon. Her best-known work includes Gold Coast Customs (1929) and English Eccentrics (1933). Four wartime volumes, including Street Songs (1942) and The Shadow of Cain (1947), were inspired by the blitz and the atom bomb.
by Maurice Lambert
aluminium head, 1985 (circa 1926-1927)
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1953
NPG P1682
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate copy negative, 1920s
NPG x82160
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1920s
NPG x40361
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, December 1926
NPG x40360
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1927
NPG x40365
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1930
NPG x40363
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1930
NPG x40364
by Cecil Beaton
bromide postcard print on album page, 1930
NPG x40984
by Cecil Beaton
bromide postcard print on album page, 1930
NPG x40985
by Cecil Beaton
bromide postcard print on album page, 1930
NPG x40986
by Fox Photos Ltd
bromide print, 1931
NPG x45497
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Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell (née Denison) (mother)
Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt (brother)
Sir (Sacheverell) Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt (nephew)
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt (brother)
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