Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958), ComposerSitter in 34 portraits
Vaughan Williams studied with Parry at the Royal College of Music, with Brüch in Berlin and Ravel in Paris. He was a leading figure, with Holst, in the folk-song revival and shifted the course of English-language hymnody with his English Hymnal (1906). Teacher of Composition at the Royal College of Music (1919-39), he established a native school of music based on choral and ballad traditions. He composed nine symphonies, operas, ballets, chamber music, and secular and religious vocal music. Notable works include: A Sea Symphony (1910), based on Walt Whitman's poems, A London Symphony (1914) and The Lark Ascending (1914-20). His score for the film Scott of the Antarctic became the Sinfonia Antarctica (1952).
by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, copied November 1941
NPG x163220
Sir (John) Francis Gathorne-Hardy
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, August 1949
NPG x190219
Wallace Woodworth; Ralph Vaughan Williams; Sir Adrian Boult
by Unknown photographer
bromide print
NPG x27498
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