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Wyndham Lewis

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Wyndham Lewis

by George Charles Beresford
half-plate glass negative, 1913
6 1/8 in. x 4 1/4 in. (154 mm x 109 mm) overall
Purchased, 1954
Photographs Collection
NPG x6535

Sitterback to top

  • (Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Painter and novelist. Sitter in 18 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 39 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • George Charles Beresford (1864-1938), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 388 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Current affairs

The Suffragette, Emily Davison dies after stepping out in front of the King's horse as a protest at the Epsom Derby. In the same year the Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act allowing them to release and re-arrest Suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison. Davison, herself, had been on hunger strike and was force-fed while detained at Holloway Prison.

Art and science

Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring comes to London following its premier at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Audiences were shocked by Stravinsky's rhythmic and dissonant musical score and by the violent jerky dancing of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which were intended to represent pagan ritual.

International

Henry Ford introduces the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company, rapidly increasing the rate at which the famous Model T could be manufactured, leading to massive growth in the motorcar industry and demonstrating to other industries the efficiency of mass production.

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