T. S. Eliot
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Object Details
- Artist
- Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, 9 Apr 1879 - 6 Jan 1972
- Sitter
- Thomas Stearns Eliot, 26 Sep 1888 - 4 Jan 1965
- Provenance
- The artist; purchased 1969 by Lew D. Feldman; his estate auctioned by (Sotheby’s Arcade) 20 February 1985; (Peter Nahum, London); purchased 1986 NPG
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of the National Portrait Gallery Commission and senior staff in memory of Donald P. Klopfer
- 1962
- Object number
- NPG.86.88
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 114.3 x 94 x 2.5cm (45 x 37 x 1")
- Frame: 137.2 x 116.8 x 7.6cm (54 x 46 x 3")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Printed Material\Book
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair\Armchair
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Bookcase
- Interior\Domestic
- Artwork\Portrait
- Game\Playing cards
- Artwork\Silhouette
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Male
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Literature\Publisher
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Literature\Writer\Poet
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Literature\Writer\Essayist
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Literature\Literary critic
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Literature\Editor\Journal
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Nobel Prize
- Thomas Stearns Eliot: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.86.88
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm44dd4de36-3486-4319-bcc2-2d946267a56b
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