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Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Cecil Beaton was a British photographer and designer best known for his elegant photographs of high society. View Cecil Beaton’s 1,662 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Beaton was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his elegant and unusual shots of celebrities and royalty.
Sir Cecil Beaton was one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. His association with the British Royal Family spanned across six decades, making him one of the most represented portrait photographers in the Royal Photograph Collection.
The photographs of the British Royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) were central to shaping the monarchy's public image in the mid 20th century. Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton, a successful fashion photographer, in 1942.
Sir Cecil Beaton (born January 14, 1904, London, England—died January 18, 1980, Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire) was a photographer known primarily for his portraits of celebrated persons. He also worked as an illustrator, a diarist, and an Academy Award-winning costume and set designer.
A premier portrait photographer. Cecil Beaton began to pursue photography at a very early age. As a teenager he spent many hours attempting to recreate the look of glamorous society portraits using his sisters, Nancy and Baba, as models.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Cecil Beaton is chiefly remembered as the leading British portrait and fashion photographer of his day. Less well known is the fact that Beaton was one of Britain’s hardest working war photographers during the Second World War.
The V&A holds the archive of royal portraits by renowned fashion photographer Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 – 80), who became court photographer to the British Royal Family in 1937, and continued to photograph them for the next three generations, including taking the official portraits for Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. Read more.
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