The Art Establishment: Photographs by Lucy Dickens
Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar; Delia Mary (née Dawnay), Lady Millar
by Lucy Anne Dickens
May 2001
NPG P948(28)
Past display archive
10 September 2002 - 2 February 2003
Room 37a
Free
This is a record of the great and the good in the art establishment at the beginning of the new millennium. It celebrates the contribution of the postwar generation, epitomized by the late Sir Ernst Gombrich, who brought new levels of academic rigour to art history, as well as the achievements of the current generation. Some are distinguished by their leadership of major national institutions; all are distinguished by their scholarship. Some are famous; others are unsung heroes. The portraits, formal and considered, reflect the stature of their subjects. The settings, chosen by the sitters, whether at home, or at their place of work, reflect their passion.
The original list of sitters was compiled in discussion with my father, Sir Oliver Millar, former Director of the Royal Collection, and Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Gallery and former Director of the National Portrait Gallery. It grew through the further suggestions of the sitters themselves. I am immensely grateful to those who agreed to sit for me, despite the pressures on their time, and in some cases, old age or infirmity. I was met unfailingly with courtesy (and often fish pie).
Lucy Dickens, August 2002
Lucy Dickens took a BA in Photography at Central London Polytechnic and has combined her career in photography with spells of teaching. Recent projects include an artist residency for Southern Arts in Windsor in 2000. In 2002 Dickens worked on the Arne Jacobsen retrospective for the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, photographing St Catherine's College for the exhibition and publication.
The photographer is about to embark on a collaboration with Plantlife, the wild plant conservation charity, to photograph leading environmentalists. This portfolio of 42 photographs is being shown in two parts; part one runs from 10 September until 8 December, 2002 and part two from 10 December until 2 February, 2003. The portraits were taken with a Bronica camera on 21/4 inch colour negative film and the c-type photographs were hand-printed by the artist.
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
by Lucy Anne Dickens
March 2001
NPG P948(18)
Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith
by Lucy Anne Dickens
February 2001
NPG P948(38)
Alan Charles Nelson Borg
by Lucy Anne Dickens
February 2001
NPG P948(3)
Anita Brookner
by Lucy Anne Dickens
February 2001
NPG P948(4)
Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue
by Lucy Anne Dickens
November 2000
NPG P948(12)
Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones
by Lucy Anne Dickens
July 2001
NPG P948(23)
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- Sir Jack Mervyn Frank Baer
- (Charles) David Ogilvy Barrie
- Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue
- Alan Charles Nelson Borg
- Anita Brookner
- Christopher Paul Hadley Brown
- Martin Richard Fletcher Butlin
- Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi
- (Ian) Lorne Campbell
- Sir Timothy Peter Plint Clifford
- Anna Gwenllian Somers Cocks
- Sir Howard Montagu Colvin
- David Patrick Martin Ekserdjian
- Caroline Mary Elam
- Enriqueta Frankfort
- Kenneth John Garlick
- Charlotte Mary Helen Gere
- Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
- Graham Carleton Greene
- James Holloway
- Simon Swynfen Jervis
- (Dowrish) Evelyn Louis Joll
- Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones
- Richard Kingzett
- Alastair David Laing
- (Robert) Neil MacGregor
- Sir (John) Denis Mahon
- Delia Mary (née Dawnay), Lady Millar
- Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar
- Jennifer Iris Rachel Montagu
- Leonée Ormond (née Jasper)
- Richard Louis Ormond
- Michael Isaac Podro
- Jessica Mary Rawson
- (Arthur) Graham Reynolds
- Sir Hugh Ashley Roberts
- (Priscilla) Jane Stephanie (née Low), Lady Roberts
- (David) Duncan Robinson
- Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
- Sir Charles Robert Saumarez Smith
- Dame Rosalind Joy Savill
- Simon John Thurley
- Giles Adrian Waterfield
- Sir Christopher John White
- George Zarnecki