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1904 Hampstead, England - 1980 Wiltshire, England. Known for: Celebrity portrait painting, photography, fashion design.
Sir Cecil Walter Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He... Read full biography
Sir Cecil Walter Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was born on January 14, 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867-1936), a... Read full biography
Sir Cecil Walter Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was born on January 14, 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867-1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife Etty Sissons (1872-1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841-1904) had founded the family business of Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents, and his... Read full biography
Sir Cecil Walter Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was born on January 14, 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867-1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife Etty Sissons (1872-1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841-1904) had founded the family business of Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents, and his father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was also an amateur actor and had met his wife, Cecil's mother, when playing the lead in a play. She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith who had come to London to visit her married sister. They... Read full biography
Sir Cecil Walter Beaton was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, style icon, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was born on January 14, 1904 in Hampstead the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867-1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife Etty Sissons (1872-1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841-1904) had founded the family business of Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents, and his father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was also an amateur actor and had met his wife, Cecil's mother, when playing the lead in a play. She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith who had come to London to visit her married sister. They had four children - in addition to Cecil there were two daughters Nancy (1909-1999) and Baba (1912-1973), and... Read full biography
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Keywords (22)
Art Method
- •Costume Design
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Fashion Illustration, Sketches, Design and/or Photography
- •Magazine Illustration
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Theatre Scene Painting, Stage/Set Design for Television and/or Movies
Art Media
Art Style
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Added Description
- •LIFE Magazine Illustrator, Photographer
- •VOGUE Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer