Surrealist studies: vintage photographs by Angus McBean, 1930s-40s

Beatrix Lehmann

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1937
NPG P922

Frances Day

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P917

Dame Peggy Ashcroft

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P913

Jane Baxter (Feodora Forde)

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P914

Dame Gladys Cooper

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P916

Dorothy Dickson

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P918

Alfred Drayton (Alfred Varick); Robertson Hare

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P919

Elsa Lanchester

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P921

Margaret Lockwood

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P923

René Ray (née Irene Lilian Creese), Countess of Midleton

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P925

Pamela Stanley (Lady Cunynghame) as Queen Victoria in 'Victoria Regina'

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P926

Carol Goodner; Dame Peggy Ashcroft; Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P928

Anton Walbrook; Diana Wynyard; Rex Harrison

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1939
NPG P929

Diana Josephine Churchill

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1940
NPG P915

Hermione Gingold

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
NPG P920

Emlyn Williams

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1948
NPG P927

Vera Pearce

by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1938
NPG P924