Lytton Strachey
(1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter in 144 portraits
Artist associated with 5 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
(Joan) Pernel Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1901-1902
NPG x13084
Lady Ottoline Morrell; Virginia Woolf; Lytton Strachey and an unknown man
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Virginia Woolf; Lytton Strachey and an unknown man
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
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Lytton Strachey; Lady Ottoline Morrell and two unknown sitters
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1911-1912
NPG Ax140343
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1912
NPG Ax13003
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1912
NPG Ax13004
James Beaumont Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1912
NPG Ax13005
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1912
NPG Ax13009
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1912
NPG Ax13010
by Unknown photographer
passport photograph, circa 1912
NPG Ax13016
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1912
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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh; Lytton Strachey; Lady Ottoline Morrell and three unknown sitters
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1912
NPG Ax140332
probably by Vanessa Bell
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1913
NPG x21196
probably by Vanessa Bell
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1913
NPG x21198
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, circa 1913
NPG x13069
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1914
NPG Ax13008
Related People
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
- Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
- Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
- Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
- Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
- William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
- Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
- Christopher Strachey (nephew)
- James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
- Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
- Sir John Strachey (uncle)
- John Strachey (nephew)
- Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
- Marjorie Strachey (sister)
- Oliver Strachey (brother)
- Olivia Strachey (sister)
- (Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
- Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
- Ralph Strachey (brother)
- Sir Richard Strachey (father)
- Richard John Strachey (brother)
- Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
- Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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