Lytton Strachey

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In the First World War, when this portrait was made, he was a conscientious objector. He wrote for various journals and magazines while his Eminent Victorians (1918), with essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon, made his name and set standards for literary biography for the twentieth century.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Lytton Strachey

Date

1916

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 50.8 x W 60.9 cm

Accession number

6662

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Frances Catherine Partridge, née Marshall, 2004

Work type

Painting

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