Cecil Beaton

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...

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.

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 ),John Banting , Eugene MacCown ,...

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.