Lytton Strachey
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lytton Strachey
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1916
2 1/8 in. x 3 1/8 in. (54 mm x 79 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax143310
Sitterback to top
- (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey. Sitter in 144 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: Wales, Conwy (on the beach near Tal-y-Cafn, Conwy, Wales)
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Events of 1916back to top
Current affairs
As war drags on with heavy losses conscription is introduced with the Military Service Act. Conscientious objectors who refused to fight were compelled to do non-military war work, and some were jailed.British Summer Time is introduced, putting the clocks forward an hour during the summer in order to capitalise on daylight hours.
Art and science
C. Hubert H. Parry sets William Blake's poem, Jerusalem, to music popularising the poem and tune as a patriotic English anthem. On hearing Edward Elgar's orchestrated version in 1922, King George V suggested that it replace God Save the King as the National Anthem.International
The Irish Citizen Army starts a Nationalist rebellion in Dublin: The Easter Rising.Massive losses are suffered on the Western Front at the battles of the Somme and Verdun.
The Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire (1916-18) led by Prince Faisal is assisted by T.E. Lawrence, who became known as Lawrence of Arabia.
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Angela Williams
25 March 2018, 16:20
I would like to suggest an alternative location for this portrait. Lytton Strachey made a number of visits to Cornwall and is known to have stayed at Home Farm in Welcombe and at West Mill in the Marsland valley. I wonder if this picture may have been taken at Welcombe Mouth. The rock formations there are very distinctive.