Sir William Menzies Coldstream
(1908-1987), PainterSitter in 21 portraits
Realist painter Coldstream established the influential Euston Road School with Claude Rogers and Victor Pasmore in 1937. Later Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art and Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Art Education (1958-71), Coldstream reshaped British art education. Appointed CBE in 1952, and knighted in 1956, he enjoyed his first major retrospective at the South London Art Gallery in 1962, which toured the UK extensively.
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 16 April 1962
NPG P797(11)
W.H. Auden; Sir William Menzies Coldstream; Benjamin Britten
by Unknown photographer
snapshot print, 1937
NPG x15191
W.H. Auden; Hedli Anderson; Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Unknown photographer
snapshot print, 1937
NPG x15192
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 28 February 1953
NPG x86781
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1956
NPG x166654
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Henry Grant
bromide print, 1960
NPG x22197
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1963
NPG x13713
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 17 May 1967
NPG x167151
by Central Press
bromide press print, 1 December 1971
NPG x182374
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210042
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210043
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210044
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210045
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210046
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x210047
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x4117
Sir William Menzies Coldstream; Ian Evers Tregarthen Jenkin
by Harry Diamond
gelatin silver print, August 1975
NPG x4118
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Sarah Quill
bromide print, February 1975
NPG x1469
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Sarah Quill
bromide print, circa 1975
NPG x1453
Sir William Menzies Coldstream
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 28 April 1953
NPG x100807
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