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.
by Dora Carrington
oil on panel, 1916
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 John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13075
by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13076
by John Smith Hazard
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1883
NPG x13077
by John Smith 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
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13000
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13001
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1900s
NPG Ax13002
Related People
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
- Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
- Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
- Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
- Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
- William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
- Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
- Christopher Strachey (nephew)
- James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
- Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
- Sir John Strachey (uncle)
- John Strachey (nephew)
- Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
- Marjorie Strachey (sister)
- Oliver Strachey (brother)
- Olivia Strachey (sister)
- (Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
- Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
- Ralph Strachey (brother)
- Sir Richard Strachey (father)
- Richard John Strachey (brother)
- Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
- Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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