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Ralph Vaughan Williams

(1872-1958), Composer

Sitter 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).

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
35mm negative, 1940s
NPG x19701

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
35mm negative, 1940s
NPG x19702

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
35mm negative, 1940s
NPG x19703

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
35mm negative, 1940s
NPG x19704

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Walter Stoneman
copy negative, copied November 1941
NPG x163220

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Sir (John) Francis Gathorne-Hardy

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, August 1949
NPG x190219

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Lida Moser
film negative, 1953
NPG x45328

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Lida Moser
film negative, 1953
NPG x45329

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Lida Moser
bromide print, 1953
NPG x45367

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Lida Moser
bromide print, 1953
NPG x45368

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x2203

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x2204

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x179273

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