Sir Osbert Sitwell
(1892-1969), WriterSir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt
Sitter in 61 portraits
Author of poetry, fiction, biography and travel writing, Sitwell joined the army in 1911 and served throughout the First World War. Although the majority of his poetry is light and satiric, his early poems, such as The Winstonburg Line (1919), are pacifist in tone. Sitwell was a supporter of the avant-garde poets Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and a patron of the young composer William Walton, writing the libretto for his Belshazzar’s Feast in 1926. Sitwell is now best known for his five-volume autobiography Left-Hand, Right Hand (1944–50).
by Frank Owen Dobson
plaster cast of head, 1922
NPG 6320
by Frank Owen Dobson
bronze head, 1994, based on a work of 1922
NPG 6321
by Rex Whistler
pencil and watercolour, 1935
NPG 5009
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1919
NPG x46608
by Maurice Beck and Helen Macgregor
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x12506
by Maurice Beck and Helen Macgregor
bromide print, early 1920s
NPG x12403
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1927
NPG Ax3439
Sir Osbert Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Edith Sitwell
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1927
NPG x40365
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 29 September 1933
NPG x84787
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 29 September 1933
NPG x84788
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax136116
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1934
NPG x24212
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
NPG x127599
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
NPG x127600
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 June 1939
NPG x127601
Sir Osbert Sitwell; Edith Sitwell
by Ruth Sondak
bromide print, 8 November 1948
NPG x45790
Related People
- William Henry Forester Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough (grandfather)
- Edith Frances Wilhelmina (née Somerset), Countess of Londesborough (grandmother)
- Lady Ida Emily Augusta Sitwell (née Denison) (mother)
- Dame Edith Sitwell (sister)
- Francis Trajan Sitwell (nephew)
- Sir (Sacheverell) Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt (nephew)
- Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt (brother)
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