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.
by Vanessa Bell
bromide snapshot print, 1926
NPG x13073
Angelica Garnett; Clive Bell; Stephen Tomlin; Lytton Strachey
by Vanessa Bell
bromide snapshot print, 1926
NPG x13136
Dora Carrington; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey
by Frances Partridge
vintage snapshot print, 1926-1927
NPG x13137
Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford; Lytton Strachey; Dadie Rylands
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, 1926
NPG x25115
Marjorie Strachey; Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1928
NPG x13081
Raymond Mortimer; Angelica Garnett; the dog Henry; Lytton Strachey
by Vanessa Bell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x13898
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
NPG Ax143220
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
NPG Ax143220a
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
bromide postcard snapshot, 1929
NPG x13070
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1930
NPG Ax143288
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1930
NPG Ax143309
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, circa 1930
NPG x13071
What can we talk about (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143304
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143305
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143306
'Lytton agrees and admires' (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143307
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143308
Arthur David Waley; Lytton Strachey; (Helen) Hope Mirrlees; Georges Cattaui
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
NPG Ax143313
'Lytton agrees and admires' (Lytton Strachey; W.B. Yeats)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
snapshot print enlargement, 1931
NPG x143307
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, circa 1925-1930
NPG D236
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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