Lytton Strachey
(1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter in 144 portraits
Artist associated with 5 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
by Unknown photographer, after Henry Lamb
bromide print; oil on canvas, after 1914
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915-1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915-1916
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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Bertrand Russell; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Philip Edward Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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Bertrand Russell; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, September 1915
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1915-1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Roger Fry; Clive Bell; Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, circa 1916
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
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Oliver Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, May 1917
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Alix Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; (Reginald) Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood; (William) Miles Malleson
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Philip Edward Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lytton Strachey; Bertrand Russell; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith; Alix Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by E.O. Hoppé
modern print on sepia-toned Veribrom paper, 1918
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Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1918
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Lytton Strachey; Ralph Partridge
probably by Dora Carrington
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1920
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1920
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1920
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Lytton Strachey; Raymond Mortimer and two others
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, early 1920s
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Lytton Strachey; Dora Carrington
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1920s
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Michael Llewelyn Davies; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Related People
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
- Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
- Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
- Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
- Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
- William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
- Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
- Christopher Strachey (nephew)
- James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
- Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
- Sir John Strachey (uncle)
- John Strachey (nephew)
- Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
- Marjorie Strachey (sister)
- Oliver Strachey (brother)
- Olivia Strachey (sister)
- (Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
- Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
- Ralph Strachey (brother)
- Sir Richard Strachey (father)
- Richard John Strachey (brother)
- Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
- Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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