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In this portrait, novelist Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall) is portrayed with short, cropped, dusty brown hair, wearing a tailored midnight black jacket and coffee brown trousers, with a cravat and monocle. Believing herself to be a man trapped in a woman’s body, Hall cultivated a sophisticated masculine appearance whilst proclaiming her defiance of convention. At the time this portrait was painted, she stopped using her birth name, Marguerite preferring the name “John,” while adopting another family name, “Radclyffe,” for her books. Hall took a great professional risk with her semi-autobiographical 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness” in which she portrayed a central lesbian relationship in order to gain acceptance for those she described as “my people.” The book sparked great controversy, was immediately banned, despite protests from Virginia Woolf and other writers, and was not reprinted in Britain until 1949. Hall previously published five volumes of poetry under her full name Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the 1926 novel Adam's Breed. At a time when homosexuality was generally illegal, Hall had fallen in love with a woman, Una Elena Vincenzo (née Taylor), Lady Troubridge. The pair lived together openly until Hall’s death in 1943. Una, Lady Troubridge bequeathed this wonderful Buchel portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in 1963. Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) was born in Mainz, Germany, but came to England as a child. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and, in 1898, he began to work for the actor-manager, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with whom he was closely associated for the next 16 years. He painted many portraits of Tree, as well as posters, programmes and other theatrical works. As a result of this connection Buchel became well known in theatrical circles and painted many leading stars of the day and also illustrated several theatrical magazines.

In this portrait, novelist Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall) is portrayed with short, cropped, dusty brown hair, wearing a tailored midnight black jacket and coffee brown trousers, with a cravat and monocle. Believing herself to be a man trapped in a woman’s body, Hall cultivated a sophisticated masculine appearance whilst proclaiming her defiance of convention. At the time this portrait was painted, she stopped using her birth name, Marguerite preferring the name “John,” while adopting another family name, “Radclyffe,” for her books. Hall took a great professional risk with her semi-autobiographical 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness” in which she portrayed a central lesbian relationship in order to gain acceptance for those she described as “my people.” The book sparked great controversy, was immediately banned, despite protests from Virginia Woolf and other writers, and was not reprinted in Britain until 1949. Hall previously published five volumes of poetry under her full name Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the 1926 novel Adam's Breed. At a time when homosexuality was generally illegal, Hall had fallen in love with a woman, Una Elena Vincenzo (née Taylor), Lady Troubridge. The pair lived together openly until Hall’s death in 1943. Una, Lady Troubridge bequeathed this wonderful Buchel portrait to the National Portrait Gallery in 1963. Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) was born in Mainz, Germany, but came to England as a child. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and, in 1898, he began to work for the actor-manager, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with whom he was closely associated for the next 16 years. He painted many portraits of Tree, as well as posters, programmes and other theatrical works. As a result of this connection Buchel became well known in theatrical circles and painted many leading stars of the day and also illustrated several theatrical magazines.

Radclyffe Hall by Charles Buchel (German British) - Oil on canvas / 1918 - National Portrait Gallery (London, England) #WomenInArt #art #Artwork #Portrait #ArtText #BritishArtist #CharlesBuchel #RadclyffeHall #KarlAugustBüchel #lgbtqArt #OilPainting #BritishArt #1910s #NationalPortraitGallery

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