Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde); Merlin Holland
5 of 7 portraits by Van Hallan Press Agency
© reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde); Merlin Holland
by Van Hallan Press Agency
bromide press print, 13 October 1966
8 1/2 in. x 6 5/8 in. (215 mm x 168 mm) image size
Transferred from Evening Standard Library, before 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG x182329
Sittersback to top
- Merlin Holland (1945-), Author; son of Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde); grandson of Oscar Wilde. Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Vyvyan Holland (Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde) (1886-1967), Author and translator; son of Oscar Wilde. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Van Hallan Press Agency, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 7 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London)
Events of 1966back to top
Current affairs
The English football team wins against West Germany at the World Cup Final in Wembley.144 people, including 116 children, die in the Aberfan disaster when a colliery waste tip slides down a mountain in Wales.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentence to life imprisonment for the brutal Moors Murders.
Art and science
Tom Stoppard's first play Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead premiers. This absurdist play uses two minor characters from Hamlet to explore the existential themes of free will versus determinism and the futility of language.Seamus Heany publishes his first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist.
International
The Cultural Revolution is launched in China in order to bring Chinese culture and society in line with communist ideals. It was also, however, an attempt by Mao Zedong to regain control of the country after the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey meets Pope Paul VI, the first official meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for 400 years.
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