Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), Actress
Sitter associated with 84 portraits
Actress and singer, Lawrence made her stage debut in Dick Whittington in Brixton in December 1908. Lawrence achieved her first major stage success appearing opposite Noël Coward in his musical revue London Calling (1923), having first met in the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool in 1912. The musical included one of her many signature songs 'Parisian Pierrot'. Lawrence became Coward's great muse and life-long friend, with the author writing Private Lives (1930) especially for her, and they starred together again in Coward's Tonight at 8.30 (1935).
Gertrude Lawrence possibly as the Muse of Comedy
by Madame Yevonde
Vivex colour print, July 1936
NPG P871(2)
by Bassano
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30636
by Bassano
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30637
by Bassano
half-plate glass copy negative, March 1917
NPG x30638
by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 5 March 1917
NPG x30909
by Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 5 March 1917
NPG x30910
Gertrude Lawrence; Pamela Howley
by Raoul Barba
vintage print, 1920s
NPG x184006
by Unknown photographer
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, 1923
NPG Ax160428
by Bertram Park
chlorobromide print, 1928
NPG x133225
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1930
NPG x14127
by Paul Tanqueray
modern bromide print from original negative, 1932
NPG x29700
by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, 1932
NPG x180223
Clifford Lely Mollison; (Elsie) Evelyn Laye; Sir Gerald Du Maurier; Nelson Keep; Gertrude Lawrence
by George Woodbine, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 23 February 1932
NPG x136412
Douglas Fairbanks Jr; Gertrude Lawrence
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1934
NPG x46508
Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in 'Moonlight is Silver'
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print, 1934
NPG x46509
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