Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt

1 portrait

Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt, by Howard Coster, 1929 - NPG - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt

by Howard Coster
sepia-toned bromide print, 1929
8 5/8 in. x 11 in. (218 mm x 278 mm)
Given by Estate of Howard Coster, 1959
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax2310


Click on the links below to find out more:

Sitterback to top

Artistback to top

  • Howard Coster (1885-1959), Photographer. Artist associated with 9285 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Sassoon was photographed by Coster at Port Lympne, the country house he built in his constituencey of Hythe in Kent. Coster's photographs of Sassoon appeared as sepia photogravure reproductions in the 1929 Christmas issue of the Bookman Magazine, an illustrated monthly devoted to literary life.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG x15286: Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, 3rd Bt (original negative)

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Pepper, Terence; Strong, Arthur, Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits, 1985 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 28 June - 8 September 1985), p. 88