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Anthony Powell

(1905-2000), Writer

Anthony Dymoke Powell

Sitter in 15 portraits
Novelist; Fiction Editor of the TLS (1948-53). His great novel-sequence A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) was championed enthusiastically in the paper by the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross and the critic Julian Symons, among others.

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Anthony Powell

by Henry Lamb
oil on canvas, 1934
NPG 6627

Anthony Powell

by Hubert Andrew Freeth
pencil, 1960s?
NPG 5093

Anthony Powell; Riccardo Aragno

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1963
NPG P512(19)

Anthony Powell

by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 16 January 1978
NPG P833

Anthony Powell

by Dmitri Kasterine
modern bromide print from original negative, 2009, based on a work of 1984
NPG P1335

Anthony Powell

by Mark Gerson
bromide print, December 1963
NPG x15452

Anthony Powell; Riccardo Aragno

by Lewis Morley
toned bromide print, 1963
NPG x125219

Anthony Powell

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 22 January 1969
NPG x165964

Anthony Powell

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 22 January 1969
NPG x165965

Anthony Powell

by Tara Heinemann
resin print, 1982
NPG x22182

Anthony Powell; Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham)

by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
archival digital print, 1984
NPG x131846

Anthony Powell

by Granville Davies
bromide fibre print, June 1986
NPG x29283

Anthony Powell

by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
bromide fibre print, 1988
NPG x31845

Anthony Powell

by Clayton Evans
bromide print, June 1955
NPG x14354

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Anthony Powell

by Fay Godwin
bromide print, 1974
NPG x12939

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Related People

Lady Violet Georgiana Powell (née Pakenham) (wife)

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London

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