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Ramsey & Muspratt

(1932-1978), Photographers

Artist associated with 60 portraits
Lettice Ramsey and Helen Muspratt opened their first joint studio in Cambridge above a row of shops in 1932. Ramsey brought her connections to Muspratt's know-how to create a style of relaxed but perceptive portraiture that gained popularity with Cambridge's leading pre-war intellectual and literary figures. In 1937 Muspratt married and expanded the studio to Oxford, whilst Ramsey remained in Cambridge and continued to run the original studio until the 1970s. The Gallery holds many works donated by Ramsey's daughter in 1988.

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Guy Burgess, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(5)

Guy Burgess

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1930s
NPG P363(5)

Marghanita Laski, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(15)

Marghanita Laski

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1930s
NPG P363(15)

Donald Maclean, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(16)

Donald Maclean

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1930s
NPG P363(16)

Clive Bell, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(1)

Clive Bell

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(1)

Quentin Bell, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(2)

Quentin Bell

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(2)

John Desmond Bernal, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(3)

John Desmond Bernal

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(3)

Alistair Cooke, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(6)

Alistair Cooke

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(6)

Roger Fry, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(9)

Roger Fry

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(9)

Roger Fry, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(10)

Roger Fry

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(10)

Virginia Woolf; Angelica Garnett, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(21)

Virginia Woolf; Angelica Garnett

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(21)

Angelica Garnett; Virginia Woolf, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(22)

Angelica Garnett; Virginia Woolf

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(22)

John Desmond Bernal, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(4)

John Desmond Bernal

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1933
NPG P363(4)

John Cornford; Rachel ('Ray') Peters, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(7)

John Cornford; Rachel ('Ray') Peters

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1934
NPG P363(7)

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(8)

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1934
NPG P363(8)

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(12)

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1936
NPG P363(12)

Dorothy Hodgkin, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(13)

Dorothy Hodgkin

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, circa 1937
NPG P363(13)

John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(14)

John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG P363(14)

Joseph Needham, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(17)

Joseph Needham

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG P363(17)

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(19)

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1937
NPG P363(19)

Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, by Ramsey & Muspratt - NPG P363(20)

Sir John Tresidder Sheppard

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, circa 1939
NPG P363(20)

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