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Lytton Strachey

(1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey

(Giles) Lytton Strachey

Sitter in 144 portraits
Artist associated with 5 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.

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Lytton Strachey, by Simon Bussy - NPG 4595

Lytton Strachey

by Simon Bussy
pastel, 1904
NPG 4595

Lytton Strachey, by Nina Hamnett - NPG 2215

Lytton Strachey

by Nina Hamnett
chalk, circa 1917
NPG 2215

Lytton Strachey, by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley - NPG 6842

Lytton Strachey

by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley
ink and watercolour on artist's board, circa 1928-1930
NPG 6842

Lytton Strachey, by John Smith Hazard - NPG x13075

Lytton Strachey

by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13075

Lytton Strachey, by John Smith Hazard - NPG x13076

Lytton Strachey

by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13076

Lytton Strachey, by John Smith Hazard - NPG x13077

Lytton Strachey

by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13077

Lytton Strachey, by John Smith Hazard - NPG x13078

Lytton Strachey

by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13078

Lytton Strachey, by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry) - NPG x13079

Lytton Strachey

by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x13079

Lytton Strachey, by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry) - NPG x13104

Lytton Strachey

by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x13104

Lytton Strachey, by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry) - NPG x13080

Lytton Strachey

by W. & A.H. Fry (Walter & Allen Hastings Fry)
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1885
NPG x13080

The Strachey family, by Graystone Bird - NPG x32166

The Strachey family

by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x32166

The Strachey children, by Graystone Bird - NPG x13119

The Strachey children

by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13119

The Strachey family, by Graystone Bird - NPG x13122

The Strachey family

by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13122

The Strachey family, by Graystone Bird - NPG x13121

The Strachey family

by Graystone Bird
albumen print on the photographer's printed mount, circa 1893
NPG x13121

Lytton Strachey as Dr. Watson, by Unknown photographer - NPG Ax13000

Lytton Strachey as Dr. Watson

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13000

Lytton Strachey as Proust, by Unknown photographer - NPG Ax13001

Lytton Strachey as Proust

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13001

Lytton Strachey, by Unknown photographer - NPG Ax13002

Lytton Strachey

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13002

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