Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey
(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter associated with 134 portraits
Artist associated with 3 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
by Dora Carrington
oil on panel, 1916
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6662
by Dora Carrington
pencil, circa 1916
NPG 6738
by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley
ink and watercolour on artist's board, circa 1928-1930
NPG 6842
by J.S. Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13075
by J.S. Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13076
by J.S. Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13077
by J.S. Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13078
by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x13079
by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x13104
by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1885
NPG x13080
by Thomas Fall
albumen print, 1885
NPG x13110
by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x32166
by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13119
by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13122
by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13121
(Joan) Pernel Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1901-1902
NPG x13084
Unknown man; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
NPG Ax140271
Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
NPG Ax140334
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
NPG Ax140336
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