Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924), NovelistSitter in 23 portraits
Polish-British writer; became a seaman, and voyaged widely in the East, the setting for many of his most famous novels. Conrad became a British subject in 1886, settled in England in 1894 and devoted himself to literature. He is considered one of the greatest English-language novelists, whose principal works include Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904) and Under Western Eyes (1911).
after Walter Tittle
lithograph, (July 1929)
NPG D45869
after Sir David Low
photogravure, September 1923; published 13 February 1926
NPG D4526
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