John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
(1883-1946), EconomistSitter in 26 portraits
In 1908 Keynes took up a lectureship in Economics at Cambridge and was the editor of the Economic Journal from 1912 to 1945. His works, notably The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) and General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), led to the establishment of 'Keynesian economics'. After the Second World War he played a leading part in founding the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Keynes's enquiring mind, which so impressed his friend Lytton Strachey, his affair with Duncan Grant and his lasting respect for Vanessa Bell, made him a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group. He married the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925.
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John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Gwen Raverat
pen and ink and watercolour, circa 1908
NPG 4553
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes; Lydia Lopokova
by William Roberts
oil on canvas, signed 1932
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5587
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1933 or before
NPG 4529(189)
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1933 or before
NPG 4529(190)
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1933 or before
NPG 4529(191)
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Sir David Low
pencil, 1933 or before
NPG 4529(191a)
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG P363(14)
by Vanessa Bell
oil on canvas, circa 1943
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6718
Oliver Strachey; G.E. Moore; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1914
NPG x88548
Oliver Strachey; G.E. Moore; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ray Strachey
gelatin silver print, 1914
NPG Ax160965
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
NPG Ax140438
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes; Augustine Birrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, November 1915
NPG Ax140424
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1915
NPG Ax140439
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton; Lydia Lopokova
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x90117
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1930
NPG x68883
Jan Christian Smuts; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1933
NPG x19133
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG x19129
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG x19131
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG x19132
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, July 1940
NPG x68881
Related People
- Florence Ada Keynes (née Brown) (mother)
- Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (brother)
- (John) Neville Keynes (father)
- Lydia Lopokova (Lady Keynes) (wife)
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