Cecil Beaton

Standard Name: Beaton, Cecil

Connections

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Leisure and Society Virginia Woolf
After VW turned down his request to photograph her, Cecil Beaton included two drawings and a negative character sketch of her in his Book of Beauty, which was issued by the publishing firm of...
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
VT strengthened her bonds with Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim , Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), François Mitterand , and Cecil Beaton .
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
124-5, 135
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
IT married American painter and avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat .
Six portraits by Curtis Moffat hang in the National Portrait Gallery , London, some of which he created in collaboration with Olivia Wyndham . The...
Family and Intimate relationships Viola Tree
Photographer Cecil Beaton suggested in his obituary of VT that a Prime Minister's appearance at her wedding symbolized a cultural change in attitudes toward actresses: they lost their final stigma and were recognized as persons...
Literary responses Viola Tree
VT was admired throughout and after her lifetime for her commanding presence, beauty, and grace. Woolf wrote in her diary in 1926 that Tree had the great egotism, the magnification of self, which any bodily...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
By 1919 ES was also friendly with Arnold Bennett and his wife Marguerite . Wyndham Lewis became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
Publishing Nancy Mitford
Madame de Pompadour was first published with a jacket by Cecil Beaton . Her biographies (the study of Madame de Pompadour being followed by Voltaire, 1957, Louis XIV , 1966, and Frederick the Great ...
Leisure and Society Rosamond Lehmann
Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
51
Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...
Travel Nina Hamnett
NH 's friendship with a London School of Art student who was probably Paula Gellibrand (1890?-1964) brought her an invitation to spend two months in Russia over the summer.
This Paula was one of a...
Reception Elinor Glyn
Philip de Laszlo painted two portraits of EG , one in 1912 and the other in 1927. They can be viewed on line at the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery website, at www.jssgallery.org.
John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. http://www.jssgallery.org/.
under Elinor Glyn
Publishing Elinor Glyn
Duckworth issued a reprint on 31 October 1974, with an introduction by photographer Cecil Beaton (which had also appeared in the Times just before the reprint was published). Beaton had first met with EG 's...
Reception Elinor Glyn
In spite of the clamour and outrage (or perhaps in part because of it), the novel was, as Cecil Beaton remembered in his introduction to the 1974 re-issue, an overnight sensation, selling fast around the...
Friends, Associates Isak Dinesen
Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
5 February 2008
Reception Nancy Cunard
NC was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett (who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard ),
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.
209
John Banting , Eugene MacCown ,...
Leisure and Society Ivy Compton-Burnett
After the war Cecil Beaton photographed ICB for Vogue.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
191

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Texts

Beaton, Cecil, and Elinor Glyn. “Introduction”. Three Weeks, Duckworth, 1974, p. v - xxvii.
Glyn, Elinor, and Cecil Beaton. Three Weeks. Duckworth, 1974.