Rupert Brooke
3 of 21 portraits of Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Brooke
by Sherril Schell
glass positive, April 1913
12 in. x 10 in. (305 mm x 254 mm)
Given by Emery Walker Ltd, 1956
Primary Collection
NPG P101(b)
Artistback to top
- Sherril Schell (1877-1964), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Brooke's 1914 sonnets, celebrating the nobility of sacrifice, were reinforced by Schell's romantic photograph, and enjoyed a popularity that survived the disillusionment of trench warfare.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Crane, David; Judd, Alan, First World War Poets, 2014, p. 9
- Judd, Alan; Crane, David, Character Sketches: First World War Poets, 1997, p. 8
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 79
Events of 1913back to top
Current affairs
The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.Art and science
Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.International
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.Comments back to top
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Lawrence Broch
23 August 2020, 05:18
Please forgive me if you are already aware of this, but this portrait appears in "Photograms of the Year 1914," ed. by F. J. Mortimer. It is "PLATE XVII," titled "The Poet, Rupert Brooke, by Sherril Schell (London)." No publication date; but there are some hints in the book's text that it may have been published in the fall of 1914. If so, might this have been the first publication of this wonderful portrait?