Sir Edwin Lutyens
(1869-1944), Architect and President of the Royal AcademySitter associated with 28 portraits
Born in London in 1869. He studied as a pupil under Ernest George until he established his own practice. Shortly after establishing his practice he met Gertrude Jekyll who collaborated on the landscape portion of many of his subsequent commissions and through her social connections, helped Lutyens accumulate many more commissions. Best known for his romantic country houses and designs for New Delhi (1913-30), Lutyens also designed a number of war memorials including the Cenotaph (1919). His ambitious designs for Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral were never completed. Knighted in 1918, he received the Gold Medal of the RIBA in 1921 and was made President of the Royal Academy in 1938.
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by William Rothenstein
sanguine and black and white chalk, 1922
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by Bernard Partridge
ink and wash, study for drawing published in Punch 20 July 1927
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by Bernard Partridge
pencil, pen and ink, heightened with white, circa 1927
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by Bernard Partridge
pencil, study for Punch 20 July 1927
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by Unknown artist
bronze death-mask, 1944
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by Robert Lutyens
oil on canvas, 1959
NPG 4481
by Unknown photographer
print, circa 1920
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by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1924
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by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
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by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
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by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, November 1934
NPG x21926
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x14400
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x14401
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x14402
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
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by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x14404
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x14405
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
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by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
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Related People
- (Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens (daughter)
- (Edith Penelope) Mary Lutyens (daughter)
- Robert Lutyens (son)
Links
- Blue plaque, 13 Mansfield Street, Marylebone, London W1G 9NZ
- Castle Drogo, Nr Exeter, Devon
- Godalming Museum, Surrey
- Goddards, Dorking, Surrey
- Great Dixter House & Garden, Rye, East Sussex
- Greywalls, Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland
- Hestercombe Gardens, Taunton, Somerset
- Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
- Lindisfarne Castle, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
- Sir Edwin Lutyens in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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