Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
(1897-1988), Poet and writerSitter in 19 portraits
Poet and writer on art and architecture; brother of Dame Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell; works include Southern Baroque Art (1924), influential in reviving interest in Baroque architecture; lives of Scarlatti and Liszt; wide-ranging cultural and botanical publications; Collected Poems (1936).
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 7 April 1982
NPG P1923
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Michael Black
bronze bust, 1985
NPG 5865
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Denys
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x12507
Sir Osbert Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Edith Sitwell
by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print, 1927
NPG x40365
Georgia Sitwell (née Doble); Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Fox Photos Ltd
modern bromide print, 1929
NPG x45794
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Gordon Anthony
bromide print, 1936
NPG x40999
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, December 1951
NPG Ax39597
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, December 1951
NPG x45471
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1953
NPG x14210
Alexandra Isobel Susanna Edith Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt
by Francis Goodman
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1958
NPG x68809
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Lord Snowdon
bromide fibre print, 1958
NPG x132902
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Derek Parker
vintage bromide print, circa 1958
NPG x125614
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Derek Parker
vintage bromide print, circa 1958
NPG x125618
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Sir Osbert Sitwell; Edith Sitwell
by Unknown photographer
modern bromide print, 9 October 1962
NPG x45791
by London Express News and Feature Services
bromide press print, 9 October 1962
NPG x199008
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Dudley Reed
bromide print, 1982
NPG x32173
George Bernard Shaw; Edith Sitwell; Sir Osbert Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt
by Robert Stewart Sherriffs
ink, 1927-1930
NPG D4468
probably by Virginia Surtees, or by Sir (Henry) Ashley Clarke
vintage snapshot print, 1 April 1950
NPG x136173
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt; Margot Fonteyn
by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, 1 April 1950
NPG x136223
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 (son)
- Georgia Sitwell (née Doble) (wife)
- Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Bt (brother)
- Sir (Sacheverell) Reresby Sitwell, 7th Bt (son)
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