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Lady Ottoline Morrell

5 of 110 portraits matching these criteria:

- set matching 'Lady Ottoline Morrell Collection, Album 9'

Cecil Beaton Studio Archive © Conde Nast

by Cecil Beaton
postcard reproduction, 1927
4 in. x 2 3/4 in. (101 mm x 69 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax142925

Sitterback to top

Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell. Sitter associated with 596 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1715 portraits.

Artistback to top

Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Artist or producer associated with 1112 portraits, Sitter associated with 361 portraits.

Portrait setback to top

Lady Ottoline Morrell Album Collection, Album 9, 1926-31

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1927back to top

Current affairs

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, acknowledging the full independence of the Irish Free State, led at the time by W.T. Cosgrave, the the first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Art and science

The BBC gains its Royal Charter making it a public corporation and a public service broadcaster accountable to its audience. John Reith became the first Director General with the directive to 'inform, educate and entertain.'

International

Stalin expels Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Communist Party, giving himself greater control of the party and country by ousting opposition elements.

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