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D.H. Lawrence

(1885-1930), Novelist and poet

David Herbert ('D.H.') Lawrence

Sitter in 18 portraits
Lawrence's early novel, Sons and Lovers (1913), is set against his own background of a Nottinghamshire mining family. Later works dealing with personal relationships, sexual experience and spontaneous emotion made a profound impact, both literary and social. His best known novels include The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928, but banned until 1960). His depiction of sexuality shocked many readers, and obituaries presented adverse responses to his achievement. However, the novelist E.M. Forster was an exception, describing him as 'the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation'.

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D.H. Lawrence, by Jan Juta - NPG 4036

D.H. Lawrence

by Jan Juta
oil on canvas, 1920
NPG 4036

D.H. Lawrence, by Maria Hubrecht - NPG 5098

D.H. Lawrence

by Maria Hubrecht
chalk, 1920-1921
NPG 5098

D.H. Lawrence, by Edmond Xavier Kapp - NPG 4035

D.H. Lawrence

by Edmond Xavier Kapp
chalk, 1923
NPG 4035

D.H. Lawrence, by Nickolas Muray - NPG P208

D.H. Lawrence

by Nickolas Muray
gelatin silver print, 1923
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG P208

D.H. Lawrence, by Edward Weston - NPG P1028

D.H. Lawrence

by Edward Weston
gelatin silver print, 1924
NPG P1028

D.H. Lawrence, by Hon. Dorothy Eugénie Brett - NPG 4015

D.H. Lawrence

by Hon. Dorothy Eugénie Brett
oil on card, 1925
NPG 4015

D.H. Lawrence, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x140423

D.H. Lawrence

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 29 November 1915
NPG x140423

D.H. Lawrence, by Elliott & Fry - NPG x36138

D.H. Lawrence

by Elliott & Fry
bromide press print, circa 1915
NPG x36138

D.H. Lawrence, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140423

D.H. Lawrence

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 29 November 1915
NPG Ax140423

Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy; Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock); D.H. Lawrence, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140425

Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy; Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock); D.H. Lawrence

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 29 November 1915
NPG Ax140425

D.H. Lawrence, by Elliott & Fry - NPG x81934

D.H. Lawrence

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, circa 1915
NPG x81934

D.H. Lawrence, possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x140424

D.H. Lawrence

possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x140424

D.H. Lawrence; Frieda Emma Johanna Maria Lawrence (née von Richthofen), possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x140425

D.H. Lawrence; Frieda Emma Johanna Maria Lawrence (née von Richthofen)

possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x140425

Aldous Huxley; D.H. Lawrence, possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x140426

Aldous Huxley; D.H. Lawrence

possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x140426

Aldous Huxley; D.H. Lawrence, possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x140427

Aldous Huxley; D.H. Lawrence

possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x140427

D.H. Lawrence, by Ernesto Guardia, copied by Peter A. Juley - NPG x12411

D.H. Lawrence

by Ernesto Guardia, copied by Peter A. Juley
cream-toned bromide print, 1929
NPG x12411

D.H. Lawrence, by Ernesto Guardia, copied by Peter A. Juley - NPG x12410

D.H. Lawrence

by Ernesto Guardia, copied by Peter A. Juley
cream-toned bromide copy print, 1929
NPG x12410

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D.H. Lawrence

by Elliott & Fry
bromide press print, circa 1915
NPG x36137

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