Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963), NovelistSitter in 114 portraits
Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist of the inter-war years. His reputation followed the success of Brave New World (1932), which, set 500 years in the future, conjured a nightmare vision of an overpopulated society that has resorted to biological engineering. It followed a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later moved to the USA, where, partly due to interest in Hindu Vedantist ideas, his writing turned to pacifism, metaphysics and the potential of human capability. This plays out in Ends and Means (1937) and the autobiographical The Doors of Perception (1953), written under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.
Aldous Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Matthew Huxley; Mimi Gielgud
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1930
NPG Ax143186
Aldous Huxley; Matthew Huxley; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lady Ottoline Morrell
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1930
NPG Ax143187
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1930
NPG x13459
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1930
NPG x12110
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 29 September 1931
NPG x127542
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, September 1931
NPG x84300
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, September 1931
NPG x84301
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1932
NPG x144198
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax3486
by Howard Coster
print, 1934
NPG x1933
by Howard Coster
cream-toned bromide print on card mount, 1934
NPG x10664
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1934
NPG Ax136126
Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley; Philip Edward Morrell
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143971
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143972
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143973
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143974
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143975
possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1936
NPG Ax143976
Maria Huxley (née Nys); Aldous Huxley
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1938
NPG x135929
Aldous Huxley, Maria Huxley (née Nys), Matthew Huxley
by Unknown photographer
bromide press print, 1938
NPG x135933
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126646
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126647
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126648
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126649
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126650
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126651
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126652
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x126653
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky and Aldous Huxley
by Sanford H. Roth
halftone reproduction, published 15 February 1953
NPG Ax105834
Sir Julian Huxley; Aldous Huxley
by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, October 1958
NPG x12105
by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, October 1958
NPG x12106
by Wolfgang Suschitzky
gelatin silver print, October 1958
NPG x12107
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG x131072
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG x131073
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG x131074
Aldous Huxley; Sir Julian Huxley
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1959
NPG x131075
after Howard Coster
colour offset lithographic cigarette card, 1937
NPG D42402
by and copied by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 18 May 1976 (29 September 1931)
NPG x173598
Juliette (née Baillot), Lady Huxley; Aldous Huxley; Sir Julian Huxley
by Unknown photographer
bromide print
NPG x20682
Related People
- Marian Collier (née Huxley) (aunt)
- Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (brother)
- Anthony Julian Huxley (nephew)
- Francis Huxley (nephew)
- Sir Julian Huxley (brother)
- Leonard Huxley (father)
- Maria Huxley (née Nys) (wife)
- Matthew Huxley (son)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather)
- Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) (aunt)
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