Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958), ComposerSitter in 34 portraits
Vaughan Williams studied with Parry at the Royal College of Music, with Brüch in Berlin and Ravel in Paris. He was a leading figure, with Holst, in the folk-song revival and shifted the course of English-language hymnody with his English Hymnal (1906). Teacher of Composition at the Royal College of Music (1919-39), he established a native school of music based on choral and ballad traditions. He composed nine symphonies, operas, ballets, chamber music, and secular and religious vocal music. Notable works include: A Sea Symphony (1910), based on Walt Whitman's poems, A London Symphony (1914) and The Lark Ascending (1914-20). His score for the film Scott of the Antarctic became the Sinfonia Antarctica (1952).
by Robin Darwin
oil on canvas, circa 1922
NPG 5495
by Sibella Bonham-Carter
watercolour and pencil, 1928
NPG 5022
by Joy Finzi (Joyce Amy)
pencil and chalk, 1947
NPG 4086
by Jacob Epstein
bronze bust, 1950
NPG 4762
by David McFall
bronze head, 1958, based on a work of 1956
NPG 4088
by Juliet Pannett
chalk, 1957
NPG 4073
by Juliet Pannett
chalk, 1958
NPG 4074
by Herbert Lambert
photogravure, early 1920s
NPG Ax7744
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, January 1936
NPG x4127
by Howard Coster
print, 1938
NPG x2377
by Douglas Glass
vintage bromide print, 7 August 1949
NPG x33970
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1951
NPG x30012
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x2143
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1954
NPG x2369
by Central Press
vintage print, 18 July 1957
NPG x194204
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, August 1949 (January 1936)
NPG x190218
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