T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965), PoetThomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sitter in 68 portraits
Missouri-born, Eliot settled in England before the First World War. Working in Lloyd's Bank, he published Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), and Poems (1919), hand-printed at the Hogarth Press by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Eliot founded the journal, The Criterion, in 1922, publishing his now famous poem, The Waste Land, in the first issue. In 1925 he joined the publishing house Faber & Faber and established a reputation for promoting younger writers including W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender. He became a British subject in 1927. Later work included Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Four Quartets (1935-42). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
by John Gay
vintage print, 1948
NPG P702
by Jacob Epstein
plaster cast of bust, 1951
NPG 4440
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, July 1956
NPG P869(12)
T.S. Eliot; (Esme) Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher)
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1957
NPG P891
T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Maria Huxley (née Nys); T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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T.S. Eliot; Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140848
Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140849
T.S. Eliot; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140851
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140903
T.S. Eliot; Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140904
Lady Ottoline Morrell; T.S. Eliot
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140905
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141429
'Sunday Afternoon' (Lord David Cecil; T.S. Eliot)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141430
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141431
Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
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Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
NPG Ax141642
James Ching; David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford; Leonard Alfred George Strong; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923-1924
NPG Ax141641
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1924
NPG Ax141646
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1924
NPG Ax141652
by Henry Ware Eliot
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG Ax142530
by Henry Ware Eliot
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG Ax142531
by Henry Ware Eliot
vintage gelatin silver print, 1926
NPG Ax142532
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
NPG Ax142996
Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Lord David Cecil; Elizabeth Bowen; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143426
Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot; Lady Huxley and Alberto Moravia
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143428
Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot and Lady Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143430
T.S. Eliot with his sister and his cousin
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1934
NPG Ax143671
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 1940s
NPG x194422
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print on card mount, January 1948
NPG x1136
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, January 1948
NPG x32376
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