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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt (1892-1969), Writer

Sitter in 59 portraits
He joined the army in 1911 and served throughout the First World War. His early poetry, such as The Winstonburg Line (1919), is pacifist in tone. He was a staunch supporter of the avant-garde poetry of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and was a patron of the young William Walton, for whose Belshazzar's Feast he wrote the libretto in 1926. His travel writing includes Winters of Discontent(1932), about Italy, and Escape with me! (1939) on China and the Far East. His five-volume autobiography Left-Hand, Right Hand (1944-50) is considered his masterpiece.

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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Frank Owen Dobson
bronze head, 1994 (1922)
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Reginald John ('Rex') Whistler
pencil and watercolour, 1935
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Horst P. Horst
bromide print, 1948
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Frank Owen Dobson
plaster cast of head, 1994 (1922)
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé
modern bromide print, 1918
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Unknown photographer
sepia matte print on card mount, 1919
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Maurice Beck and Helen Macgregor
bromide print, 1920s
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Maurice Beck and Helen Macgregor
bromide print, early 1920s
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1926
On display at Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy, in the exhibition 'Un altro tempo. Vite nell'arte'
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Dame Edith Sitwell

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1927
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Bassano
vintage print, 29 September 1933
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Bassano
vintage print, 29 September 1933
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Howard Coster
vintage bromide print, 1934
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1934
NPG x24212

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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Bassano
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

by Rollie McKenna
bromide print, 1950s
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Group including Dame Edith Sitwell; Philip Steegman; Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt; Mrs Philip Steegman

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 12 February 1951
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Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 2 May 1953
NPG x14208

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Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell (née Denison) (mother)
Dame Edith Sitwell (sister)
Sir (Sacheverell) Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt (nephew)
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt (brother)
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