Rupert Brooke
(1887-1915), PoetSitter in 21 portraits
Cambridge-educated, Brooke was one of the early, idealising poets of the First World War. His poem 'The Soldier' ('If I should die think only this of me') typifies the patriotic nostalgia of the early volunteers. He joined the RNVR and was sent to the Dardanelles, but died of blood poisoning en route and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. The most popular poet of the war, for some, Brooke symbolised a pre-war golden age, destroyed by the conflict.
by Gwen Raverat
pencil, 1910
NPG 5817
by Clara Ewald
oil on canvas, 1911
NPG 4911
by James Havard Thomas, after a photograph by Sherril Schell
pencil, based on a work of 1913
NPG 2448
by Sherril Schell
gelatin silver print, April 1913
NPG P1698
by Speight
gelatin carte-de-visite, 1903
NPG x4696
by George Augustus Dean Jr
gelatin carte-de-visite, 1905
NPG x4697
Rupert Brooke as as the Herald in 'Eumenides'
by Scott & Wilkinson
matte printing-out paper print, 1906
NPG x4698
by Vernon Henry Mottram
platinum print, circa 1907
NPG x4700
by Unknown photographer
bromide postcard print, June 1911
NPG x199255
by Estrid Linder
gelatin silver print, August 1911
NPG x198417
Noel Olivier; Maitland Radford; Virginia Woolf; Rupert Brooke
by Unknown photographer
carbon print, 1911
NPG x13124
Duncan Campbell Scott; Rupert Brooke
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1913
NPG x4699
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