Hannen Swaffer
(1879-1962), Journalist and drama criticSitter in 19 portraits
He was editor of Weekly Dispatch and helped develop the Daily Mirror into a mass-circulation picture paper. In 1926, he became drama critic of the Daily Express. With a reputation for candour, he boasted of having been banned at some point from twelve of the forty-one theatres in London's West End. In 1931 Swaffer joined the Daily Herald, where he championed many causes including socialism, conditions in psychiatric hospitals and the 'over-Americanisation' of the stage and the press. His publications included Hannen Swaffer's Who's Who, Adventures with Inspiration, When Men Talk Truth, My Greatest Story and What Would Nelson Do? (1946).
by Marjorie Heath
oil on canvas, 1940s or 1950s?
NPG 5722
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1929
NPG Ax2342
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1930
NPG Ax136111
by Karl Pollak
chlorobromide print on card mount, circa 1947
NPG x15050
'Sybil' (Hannen Swaffer; Sybil Thorndike; George Bernard Shaw and four unknown sitters)
by Mark Wayner (Weiner)
lithograph, published 1931
NPG D23322
by Unknown artist, issued by Godfrey Phillips
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1932
NPG D2717
by Mark Wayner (Weiner)
lithograph, 1943 or before
NPG D23341
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Martin Hopkinson
21 October 2017, 13:42
Also the subject of a 1932 ink drawing by his fellow man of Sussex , Edward Burra (Rye Art Gallery) which was made for Humbert Wolfe's ABC of the Theatre. He is represented as Hamlet.