Harold Acton
(1904-1994), AuthorSir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton
Sitter in 5 portraits
Author and aesthete, Harold Acton was a notable figure at Oxford in the 1920s and went on to teach at the National University in Peking. After the War, La Pietra, his family home in Florence, became a magnet both for connoisseurs and the intellectual ex-patriate community.
by John Stanton Ward
pencil and watercolour, 1985
NPG 5850
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1949
NPG x14000
by Matthew R. Lewis
vintage bromide print, circa 1989
NPG x136788
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