Drawings, ca. 1898-1923.

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Drawings, ca. 1898-1923.

Collection consists of original drawings of the portraits of men and women of letters by Sir William Rothenstein. Portraits include Count Harry Kessler, John Galsworthy (1917), Siegfried Sassoon (1921), Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1922), J.C. Squire (1920), Victoria Sackville-West, Ruth Pitter, Augustus John (1898), T. Surge Moore, Walter De la Mare (1919), W.H. Hudson, Edward Gordon Craig (three portraits), Frances Cornford (1923), Robert Bridges, R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Grant Allen, Charles Conder, T. Watts-Dunton, John Middleton Murry (1922), C. Hagberg Wright, and an unidentified woman. Some of the drawings have been published in various books by Rothenstein.

1 oversize box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7425391

University of California, Los Angeles

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Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945

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William Rothenstein was born in 1872 in Bradford. He studied art at the Slade School 1888-9 and in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1889 - 1893. Although he painted landscapes, people and architectural subjects he specialised in portraiture and published several series of lithographs from 1893, completing 800 portraits by 1926. He died in 1945. From the guide to the Study collection of 179 drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein 1896 - 1942, 1896-1942, (Tate Gallery Arch...