Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
(1901-1965), Writer and music criticEdward ('Eddy') Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
Sitter associated with 39 portraits
His best-remembered fictional work is The Rescue: a Melodrama for Broadcasting (1943) for which Benjamin Britten produced a score. He contributed his first 'Gramophone Notes' to the New Statesman in 1935, and for the next twenty years he became one of the most respected music critics of his generation. In 1945 he bought a home in Dorset where, with the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor, the painter Eardley Knollys and the literary critic Raymond Mortimer, he established a male 'salon', entertaining friends from the worlds of books and music. It was there that Sackville-West and Shawe-Taylor compiled their famous Record Guide, first published in 1951.
Charles Percy Sanger; Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West; Raymond Mortimer
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 14-16 June 1923
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Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West; Raymond Mortimer
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 14-16 June 1923
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Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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'Eddy, Siegfried, Pung riding on Phil'
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie; Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Philip and Julian Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Philip Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 June 1930
NPG x33907
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 June 1930
NPG x33905
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 12 June 1930
NPG x33906
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate nitrate negative, 23 November 1938
NPG x16584
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate nitrate negative, 23 November 1938
NPG x16585
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate nitrate negative, 23 November 1938
NPG x16586
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate nitrate negative, 23 November 1938
NPG x16587
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1956?
NPG x14196
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
modern print from original film negative, 1922
NPG Ax141268
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 26 April 1948
NPG x34198
Edward ('Eddy') Sackville-West
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 26 April 1948
NPG x34199
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