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Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

by Cecil Beaton
vintage bromide print on white card mount, 1944
9 7/8 in. x 8 1/8 in. (252 mm x 207 mm)
Given by Cecil Beaton, 1972
Primary Collection
NPG P869(10)

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  • Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Photographer, designer and writer. Artist or producer associated with 1114 portraits, Sitter associated with 360 portraits.

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  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February - 31 May 2004), p. 85 Read entry

    Men, often less malleable, approximated to his earnest, industrious father, who could not understand his son’s aesthetic gallivanting and tried to settle him in a clerical job in a City office. Beaton chose to write a play about the family life of Gainsborough because he considered him to be ‘not unlike my father’ in his impatience with pretension and artiness. The male principle censoriously glowers out of his portraits of a grumpy Churchill, whose work Beaton was interrupting, or a General Carton de Wiart, whose black patch is a reminder that eyes are both weapons and targets, not organs of sensual pleasure (P869(10)). Quintin Hogg’s hat belongs to the uniform of the officious, disciplined life that Beaton had rejected (P869(16)). In diary entries about his royal sittings, he mentioned his resentment of the Duke of Edinburgh’s bullying humour: here again was the belligerent, disapproving paternal superego.

  • Pepper, Terence, Beaton Portraits, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 February to 31 May 2004), p. 85
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 177

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Current affairs

London is hit by the V1 Flying Bomb. This weapon, developed by the German Luftwaffe and colloquially known as the 'Buzz Bomb', or 'Doodlebug', was the first guided missile and was used for attacks on targets in England and Belgium.

Art and science

Laurence Olivier's epic film version of Henry V is released. Olivier directed and starred in the film, which was partly funded by the British government in recognition of its morale-boosting patriotic appeal. The cast included service men as Henry's army.

International

France is liberated from German-occupation following the Battle for Normandy. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied-France led by Field Marshall Montgomery, was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million soldiers crossing the channel from England to France. Troops landed on the 6th June (D-Day), and Paris was liberated in late August.

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