Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (1901–1965)
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Douglas Campbell-Gray (1901–1946)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1920
Materials
Oil on board
Measurements
409 x 333 mm
Collection
Knole, Kent
NT 132093
Summary
Oil on board, Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (1901–1965), by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian Douglas Campbell-Gray (1901–1946), 1920. A half-length portrait of Eddy Sackville-West, facing, eyes downcast and looking toward bottom right. The sitter wears a skirt painted against a brown ground with broad, rough strokes of pale brown, blue, mauve and cream. The sitter has short brown hair parted to the side. Against an orange background. Sackville-West and Campbell-Gray were contemporaries and friends at Oxford; the portrait was painted in 1920, when the young men were students there. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ian Douglas Campbell-Gray (1901–1946) was the son of Henry Tufnell Campbell and Ethel Evely Gray Campbell, Baroness Gray. He served in the Royal Engineers, and was an international fencing champion, competing in the Olympics. He married Lady Diana Cavendish in 1942. Campbell-Gray's paintings were actively collected by the Contemporary Art Society and distributed to various institutions including The Wilson in Cheltenham and the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The present portrait once hung in the Gatehouse Tower at Knole.
Provenance
The portrait of Eddy Sackville-West hung in the Gatehouse Tower at Knole until Eddy left in 1940. It became part of his art collection at Long Crichel House in Dorset that was eventually inherited and expanded by the art collector Mattei Radev. This collection known as the Radev Collection, grew to contain over 800 works by Impressionist and Modernist artists. Gifted to the National Trust in 2022.
Makers and roles
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Douglas Campbell-Gray (1901–1946), artist