Beaton took the famous wedding pictures of the duke and duchess of windsor wearing an haute couture ensemble by the noted american fashion designer mainbocher.

Peter watson cecil beaton pictures. British culture owes a huge debt to peter watson. A blue plaque has been. Victor william peter watson 14 september 1908 3 may 1956 was a wealthy english art collector and benefactor. His mother esther was a cumbrian blacksmith s daughter who was visiting london when she fell in love with his father ernest a timber merchant after seeing him onstage in the lead role in an amateur dramatic production.

Lankily elegant and exquisitely dressed. He was the product of true theatrical romance. The mad boy peter watson cecil beaton and the limo by sofka zinovieff peter watson the 1930s playboy who wafts in and out of other biographies at last takes centre stage. Photo by cecil beaton.

Cecil beaton s queer saint bankrolled all the famous names from spender to freud and co founded the ica. Sotheby s cecil beaton archive wed 10 may 2017 02 00 edt last modified on tue 31 mar 2020 09 36 edt. This episode was highly humiliating for cecil beaton and so he went back to england where he was given work at the ministry of information on the recommendation of the queen. But as a louche sex life hinted he.

Blue plaque unveiled at cecil beaton s former home number 8 pelham place in london was the photographer s residence and studio for 35 years. Cecil walter hardy beaton was born in 1904 into a prosperous edwardian middle class family in hampstead a leafy suburb of london. At this time he took pictures of prime minister winston churchill. Loretta young new york 1938 photograph.

Queen fawzia fuad chirine with shah mohammed reza pahlevi and their daughter princess shahnaz pahlavi in tehran during the second world war. Feb 5 2017 explore glen moore s board peter watson on pinterest. Watson was the son of william george watson later sir george watson 1st baronet and was the youngest of three children his brother norman was born in 1897 and sister florence in 1894. He also photographed shah mohammed raza pahlevi with fauzia faud chirine and their child during world war ii.

Henceforth cecil would be bisexual though of the three great loves of his life two would be men arts patron peter watson and american art historian kin hoitsma and only one would be a woman. Peter watson right with oliver messel.

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