Oliver Strachey; Lytton Strachey
1 portrait of Oliver Strachey
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, May 1917
3 7/8 in. x 2 7/8 in. (98 mm x 74 mm) image size
Purchased, 1979
Photographs Collection
NPG x13072
Sittersback to top
- (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey. Sitter in 144 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
- Oliver Strachey (1874-1960), Musician, civil servant and author; cryptographer. Sitter in 49 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, Berkshire (Tidmarsh Mill House near Pangbourne, Berkshire)
Events of 1917back to top
Current affairs
King George V changes his name from 'Saxe-Coburg' to 'Windsor.' Amid wartime anti-German public sentiment the British Royal Family decided to relinquish their German name and titles. The name 'Windsor' was chosen as variation on ''Wettin', the late Prince Albert's personal surname.Art and science
The National Photographic Record is established at the instigation of the photographer Walter Stoneman to commission photographs of 'distinguished living contemporaries of British nationality.' This project allowed the National Portrait Gallery to circumvent its own rule that portraits could not enter the collection until the sitter had been dead ten years.International
The Russian Revolution begins with the February Revolution and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. Seven months later the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seize power in the October Revolution forming the Soviet Communist Government, which lasted until 1991. The USA abandons its neutrality and joins the war against Germany following a series of attacks on American passenger and merchant ships.Comments back to top
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