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Jamie Caffery; Daisy Fellowes

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Jamie Caffery; Daisy Fellowes

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1951
9 1/2 in. x 6 in. (241 mm x 153 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x40095

Sittersback to top

  • Jamie Caffery (1919-1972), Landscape gardener; Jefferson Caffery's nephew. Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • Daisy Fellowes (1887-1962), Leader of fashion and writer; wife of Hon. Reginald Fellowes. Sitter in 8 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Artist or producer associated with 1114 portraits, Sitter associated with 360 portraits.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February - 31 May 2004), p. 110 Read entry

    The hats worn by Beaton’s subjects often look like attempts to grow alternative heads. In a New York restaurant, he saw customers parade in a range of bonnets for which rooks, pheasants and parrots had been ruthlessly gunned down; he admired these morbid, unnatural trophies. The faces of the race-goers in My Fair Lady are all but obliterated by their extravagant plumage. A bloom sprouts from Coco Chanel’s brain in Beaton’s 1937 portrait, and at a ball in Venice in 1951, it is the skyscraping fronds of Mrs Reginald Fellowes that entitle her to impersonate America.

  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February to 31 May 2004), p. 110

Placesback to top

  • Place made and portrayed: Italy (Palazzo Labia's Tiepolo room, Venice, Italy)

Events of 1951back to top

Current affairs

The Conservative Party wins the general election and Winston Churchill returns for a second term as prime minister.

Art and science

On the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain is held as a nationwide celebration of British culture, and as an impetus for post-war regeneration. As well as various art, science and industrial exhibitions and events, a major regeneration project was initiated for the South Bank area of London under the directorship of the architect, Hugh Casson.

International

Libya declares its sovereignty from Italian rule, becoming the first independent state to be created by the UN.
At the Treaty of San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan, officially ending the Pacific War - the last battleground of the Second World War.

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