Arthur David Waley
(1889-1966), Poet and translatorSitter associated with 15 portraits
The family name of Schloss was changed to the maternal one of Waley in 1914, though poor health and eyesight prevented Waley from active service in the War. He worked in the British Museum from 1913 to 1929, working on the collections of Chinese and Japanese graphic art, teaching himself the two languages. His translations of A Hundred and Seventy Poems was published in 1918, and the Genji Monogatari by Murasaki Shikibu, was published in six volumes from1925 to 1933. He never went to China or Japan, though The Opium War through Chinese Eyes (1958) was a polemic against the imperialist attitude of an earlier generation of Sinologists, those students of Chinese history, language and culture.
by Edmund Dulac
pen and ink and watercolour, circa 1915
NPG 6598
by Rex Whistler
pencil, circa 1928-1938
NPG 4598
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1930
NPG Ax143288
Arthur David Waley; Jim Ede; Walter D'Arcy Cresswell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1930
NPG Ax143290
Arthur David Waley; Lytton Strachey; (Helen) Hope Mirrlees; Georges Cattaui
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143313
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, April 1956
NPG x14229
by Pamela Chandler
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x88899
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1937
NPG D252
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1937
NPG D253
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1937
NPG D254
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 14 April 1943
NPG x45792
Arthur David Waley; Vita Sackville-West; Sir Osbert Sitwell; Edith Sitwell; Walter de la Mare
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 14 April 1943
NPG x45793
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