T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965), PoetThomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot
Sitter in 67 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 Powys Evans
watercolour, circa 1920
NPG 6762
by George Platt Lynes
gelatin silver print, 1947
NPG P1687
by Patrick Heron
oil on canvas, 1949
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4467
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
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Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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T.S. Eliot; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Lady Ottoline Morrell; Mark Gertler
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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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
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T.S. Eliot; Mark Gertler; Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140904
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