Only Connect - Harriet Cohen <> Rebecca West

How are these sitters connected?


Harriet Cohen, by Clara Klinghoffer, 1925 - NPG - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Harriet Cohen
by Clara Klinghoffer
1925
NPG 5736
Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield)), by (Percy) Wyndham Lewis, 1932 - NPG - © Wyndham Lewis and the estate of the late Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity)

Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield))
by (Percy) Wyndham Lewis
1932
NPG 5693

The connection
Rebecca West wrote a novel, Harriet Hume, about the romance between the pianist Harriet Cohen and composer Arnold Bax.

Find out more about Cohen connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

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NPG 4228 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Harriet Cohen <> George Shaw

NPG 4975(8) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Harriet Cohen <> Frederick Delius

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