Carrington’s portrait of Strachey. He’s a bearded man reclined on a pillow reading a book. He has long, slender fingers. He’s wearing a black suit and white shirt.

Lytton Strachey was born on this day in 1880.

Portrait by Dora Carrington, 1916

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"Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake."

✒ #LyttonStrachey, English writer, biographer, and critic, was #BOTD 1 March 1880.

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." [Last words]

✒ [Giles] #LyttonStrachey, English biographer and critic, #DOTD 21 January 1932, aged 51. #Literature

Dora Carrington’s Portrait of Lytton Strachey | ArtAddict Galleria Carrington and Strachey’s relationship was unconventional, confounding, and utterly sincere. She loved him with an intensity that defied..

🎨 Dora Carrington’s Portrait of Lytton Strachey (1916) captures an extraordinary bond between artist & writer.

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"Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake."

✒ #LyttonStrachey, English writer, biographer, and critic, was #BOTD 1 March 1880.

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." [Last words]

✒ [Giles] #LyttonStrachey, English biographer and critic, #DOTD 21 January 1932, aged 51. #Literature