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Bloomsbury Group and Strachey family portraits by Ray Strachey, oil on board, 1920s-30s


61 Portraits in set

61 portraits of Bloomsbury figures and members of the Strachey family, painted in oil on board by amateur artist Ray Strachey (sister-in-law of Lytton Strachey). The collection includes a number of self-portraits. Strachey started to paint her family and friends after she was given a box of oil paints at the age of forty. Given by the artist’s daughter Barbara Halpern, 1989

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Beryl de Zoete, by Ray Strachey - NPG D258

Beryl de Zoete

by Ray Strachey
oil on board, circa 1922-1926
NPG D258