Sir Roy Strong (1935-), Art historian and museums director; former Director of the National Portrait Gallery
Sitter associated with 20 portraits
Strong was born in Winchmore Hill, north London, and after Edmonton Grammar School and a degree in History from the University of London, he took a PhD at the Warburg Institute. He became a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and in 1959 was appointed Assistant Keeper at the National Portrait Gallery. In 1967, aged 32, he became Director of the Gallery, which he revitalised with innovative exhibitions such as Beaton Portraits (1968) and Samuel Pepys (1970). Strong was appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974, where he reinvigorated the Museum's commitment to the art and design of today, and oversaw a provocative exhibition policy.
by Bernard Lee ('Bern') Schwartz
dye transfer print, 6 June 1978
NPG P1258
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1967
NPG x12533
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 21 March 1969
NPG x32550
by Stephen Hyde
bromide fibre print, 17 April 1986
NPG x31689
Sir Roy Strong: An Elizabethan Reverie
by John Swannell
archival digital print, 2010
NPG x134403
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by John Swannell
archival digital print, 2012
NPG x135904
by Cecil Beaton
pencil, early 1970s?
NPG D17941(118)
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Sir Roy Strong; Cecil Beaton
by Desmond O'Neill
matte bromide print, 1968
NPG x40486
Sir Roy Strong and National Portrait Gallery Staff
by Val Lloyd
photographic collage, 1973
NPG x76737
Sir Roy Strong; Charles Robert Saumarez Smith; John Trevor Hayes
by Julia Trevelyan Oman (Lady Strong)
colour snapshot print, 13 April 1994
NPG x68272
Charles Robert Saumarez Smith; John Trevor Hayes; Sandy Robert Nairne; Sir Roy Strong
by David Weightman
digital C-type colour print from original negative, 17 November 2004
NPG x126874
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