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Edward Alexander ('Aleister') Crowley
9 of 92 portraits on display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
Edward Alexander ('Aleister') Crowley
by Leon Engers Kennedy
oil on canvas, 1917-18
36 in. x 24 in. (916 mm x 610 mm)
Purchased, 2003
Primary Collection
NPG 6630
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- Edward Alexander ('Aleister') Crowley (1875-1947), Writer, mountaineer and occultist. Sitter in 1 portrait.
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Painted from life, this image conveys the mystical and transcendental aspects of Crowley's fame, without the demonic qualities of his self-portraits. Leon Engers-Kennedy had joined Crowley's occult society in 1912, and when they re-met in New York in 1917, Engers-Kennedy gave him house-room, and they both experimented with painting. The portrait forms the frontispiece for Crowley's The Equinox (III, No.1, 1919), and the dust wrapper of John Symonds's biography, King of the Shadow Realm (1989).
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