Lytton Strachey

Sitterback to top

• (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey. Sitter associated with 134 portraits, Artist associated with 3 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Dora Carrington (1893-1932), Artist. Artist associated with 9 portraits, Sitter associated with 15 portraits.

This portraitback to top

In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector. He wrote for various journals and magazines while his Eminent Victorians (1918), with essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, made his name and set standards for literary biography for the twentieth century.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Cooper, John, A Guide to the National Portrait Gallery, 2009, p. 51
• Spalding, Frances, Insights: The Bloomsbury Group, 2005, p. 60

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Eyeglasses and spectacles
• Lounging
• Reading