T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf







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T.S. Eliot; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1924
3 5/8 in. x 3 in. (93 mm x 75 mm) image size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Dame Helen Gardner Bequest, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax141646
Sittersback to top
- Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot (1888-1965), Poet. Sitter in 68 portraits.
- Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (1882-1941), Novelist and critic; sister of Vanessa Bell. Sitter in 63 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell. Artist or producer associated with 1715 portraits, Sitter associated with 596 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Spalding, Frances, Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 July 2014 - 26 October 2014), p. 101
- Spalding, Frances, The Bloomsbury Group, 2013, p. 18
- Spalding, Frances, Insights: The Bloomsbury Group, 2005, p. 18
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Oxfordshire (The Green Room, Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire)
Events of 1924back to top
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