Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), Writer
Quentin Crisp (Dennis Charles Pratt)
Sitter associated with 19 portraits
Quentin Crisp was a writer and actor. Born Dennis Pratt in Surrey, he studied journalism and art. His home at 129 Beaufort Street, London inspired Pinter's The Room but despite the squalor he chose to live in, Quentin Crisp (as he became in 1931) was always well dressed and made-up. During the Second World War Crisp wrote the antiwar All this and Bevin too and also worked as an artist's model. His acclaimed autobiography The Naked Civil Servant was published in 1968 and was made into a film in 1975. In 1978 Crisp became the star of his own show An Evening With Quentin Crisp and he continued to write and act including a role as Elizabeth I in Sally Potter's Orlando (1993).
by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, 1941
NPG P1299
by Marguerite Evans
oil on canvas, circa 1943
NPG 5824
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135799
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135800
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135801
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135802
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135803
by Angus McBean
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1941
NPG x135804
by Trevor Crone
vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa Record Rapid paper, May 1981
NPG x133168
by Trevor Leighton
bromide fibre print, 28 July 1981
NPG x26098
by Trevor Leighton
bromide fibre print, 28 July 1981
NPG x126723
by Barbara Morris
pen and ink, circa 1939
NPG D33670
by A.M. Parkin
etching and drypoint, 1978 (1963)
NPG D2226
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Groups
Fitzrovia
Writers and critics
Place
Surrey
