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Arthur David Waley

(1889-1966), Poet and translator

Sitter 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.

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Arthur David Waley, by Edmund Dulac - NPG 6598

Arthur David Waley

by Edmund Dulac
pen and ink and watercolour, circa 1915
NPG 6598

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends, possibly by Philip Edward Morrell - NPG Ax143288

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends

possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1930
NPG Ax143288

Arthur David Waley, by Cecil Beaton - NPG x14229

Arthur David Waley

by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, April 1956
NPG x14229

Arthur David Waley, by Pamela Chandler - NPG x88899

Arthur David Waley

by Pamela Chandler
modern bromide print from original negative, 1961
NPG x88899

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Arthur David Waley

by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, August 1946
NPG x185862

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Arthur David Waley

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, August 1946
NPG x188081

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Arthur David Waley

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, August 1946
NPG x188082

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