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Dora Carrington

(1893-1932), Artist

Sitter in 20 portraits
Artist associated with 10 portraits
Carrington was an artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group. She studied at the Slade School, where she chose to be known by her surname only. Her works include notable portraits of Lytton Strachey, Gerald Brenan and E.M. Forster (National Portrait Gallery Collection). In 1917 she set up home with Strachey, later joined by Ralph Partridge whom she married in 1921. Following Strachey's death in 1932, she took her own life. Carrington, the award- winning film of her life was made in 1995, and her only retrospective exhibition took place in the same year.

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Dora Carrington

by Dora Carrington
pencil, circa 1910
NPG 6736

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends

possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
NPG Ax140547

Dora Carrington

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG x144309

Dora Carrington

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG x144310

Dora Carrington

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG x144311

Dorothy Brett; Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie; Alix Strachey; Dora Carrington

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140506

Garsington visitors

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140551

Garsington visitors

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140551a

Lytton Strachey; Dora Carrington

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1920s
NPG Ax24020

Dora Carrington

by Lytton Strachey, or by Ralph Partridge
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG x138042

Dora Carrington

by Lytton Strachey, or by Ralph Partridge
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG x138043

Dora Carrington

by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, 1920s
NPG x13074

Dora Carrington; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell) with her pug Soie; Michael Llewelyn Davies; Ralph Partridge

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140799

Dora Carrington; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell) with her pug Soie; Michael Llewelyn Davies; Ralph Partridge

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140800

Michael Llewelyn Davies; Dora Carrington; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Ralph Partridge

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140801

Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Partridge

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141540

Oliver Strachey; Ralph Partridge; Frances Partridge; Dora Carrington

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax141541

Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott; Lytton Strachey

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
NPG Ax142600

Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Lytton Strachey; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
NPG Ax142601

Dora Carrington; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey

by Frances Partridge
vintage snapshot print, 1926-1927
NPG x13137

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