Ralph Partridge; James Beaumont Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Alix Strachey
1 portrait of James Beaumont Strachey
Ralph Partridge; James Beaumont Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Alix Strachey
probably by Frances Partridge
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
5 3/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. (136 mm x 79 mm) image size
Purchased, 1979
Photographs Collection
NPG x24025
Sittersback to top
- Reginald Sherring ('Ralph') Partridge (1894-1960), Soldier in World War I and writer; former husband of Dora Carrington, and later husband of Frances Marshall. Sitter in 13 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits. Identify
- Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence) (1892-1973), Psychologist and translator; wife of James Strachey. Sitter in 32 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits. Identify
- James Beaumont Strachey (1887-1967), Psychoanalyst and translator. Sitter in 44 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits. Identify
- Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner (1880-1962), Civil servant. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Frances Catherine Partridge (née Marshall) (1900-2004), Author and literary journalist. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits, Sitter in 9 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire (Ham Spray House, Wiltshire)
Events of 1933back to top
Current affairs
Sir Norman Angell is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Angell was recognised for his book, Europe's Optical Illusion (or The Great Illusion) first published in 1910 and updated in 1933, which argued that war between modern powers was futile as neither the looser or victor would gain economically from it.Art and science
British Art embraces abstraction with the establishment of 'Unit 1', the first group of British Artists dedicated to producing abstract art. The critic Herbert Read formed the group by bringing together the artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and the architect, Wells Coates.The Duveen Wing extension at the National Portrait Gallery is opened by King George V.
International
The Nazi party comes to power in Germany as part of a coalition government with Hitler as Chancellor. Over the next year, the party consolidated its position through the Enabling Act (allowing them to pass legislation without the support of the coalition), by banning and purging opposition, and by making Hitler Führer in 1934: granting him the combined powers of Chancellor and President.Comments back to top
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Robert B. Todd
28 April 2020, 14:46
This was almost certainly taken by Frances Partridge, Ralph's wife, at Ham Spray, Wilts. (where she took countless other snaps). They took the place over after Lytton Strachey's death and Carrington's suicide in 1932. In 1918 Saxon and Alix had briefly shared a house in Hampstead before her marriage to James Strachey, and Virginia Woolf even thought that they might make a couple; see her letters, vol. 2, pp, 210 and 223.