Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-1998), Composer
Sitter in 20 portraits
Michael Tippett attended the Royal College of Music (1923-1928) and was recognised as one of Britain's leading composers with the first performance of his three-part oratorio A Child of our Time, at the Adelphi Theatre in 1944. Tippett enjoyed a long career composing choral works, symphonies, concertos, string quartets and five operas, finding inspiration in Beethoven, Elizabethan madrigals, folk, jazz and blues. As Director of Music at Morley College, London from 1940, he was at the centre of innovative musical activity during World War Two. He went on to compose four operas including the greatly successful King Priam (1962). Appointed CBE in 1959, he was knighted in 1966.
by Gertrude Hermes
bronze head, 1966
NPG 5970
by Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski
bromide print, June 1977
NPG P1065
by Martin Rose
acrylic on canvas, 1989
NPG 6043
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1944
NPG x14220
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett; Benjamin Britten
by Erich Auerbach
bromide print, 1960
NPG x15239
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 1966
NPG x21954
by Michael Ward
selenium-toned bromide print, 7 December 1972
NPG x47150
by Denis Waugh
C-type colour print, December 1979
NPG x134843
by Neil Drabble
bromide fibre print, 1992
NPG x127397
by Hubert Leslie
silhouette, 1920s-1940s
NPG D466
by Cecil Beaton
pencil, 1970s?
NPG D17945(13)
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