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Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Georgia Sitwell, William Walton, Stephen
Tennant, Teresa Jungman, and Zita Jungman. Photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Andrew Graham-Dixon set the stage in his Sunday Telegraphreview of the Rex Whistler exhibition at the Brighton Museum.

"October Cecil Beaton contrived a photograph of &#;the bright young things&#;, as they styled themselves, to which he gave the laconic title On The Bridge, Wilsford. Seven young men and women pose for the camera, all dressed up, in ruffs and frills, patterned silk waistcoats and faux-rustic breeches, as courtly versions of the shepherds and shepherdesses of Arcadia. Beaton himself is there, along with Georgia Sitwell, Zita and &#;Baby&#; Jungman, Stephen Tennant, the composer William Walton and the painter-illustrator Rex Whistler. Soon afterwards Osbert Sitwell took the whole team to visit Lytton Strachey at nearby Ham Spray. In characteristically acerbic fashion, Strachey pronounced them &#;perfectly divine &#; strange creatures with just a not many feathers where brains ought to be.&#;

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The Queer Subjectivities and Visual Culture of Stephen Tennant, Oliver Messel and Rex Whistler,

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My thesis investigates the relationship between the ‘queer’ subjectivities and visual culture of Stephen Tennant (), Oliver Messel () and Rex Whistler () between and This time frame reflects the beginning of their friendship at the Slade Institution of Art, their first adulthood creativity and a period immediately preceding Nature War Two in which they were visible in press reports as ‘Bright Young People’. I ask: is it possible to detect a common visual language across their corpuses in the period ? And, is this putative visual language queer?

To respond these questions I outline on unseen private collections and public archives to analyse and compare diverse visual material and practices associated with these men. These include paintings, drawings, self-presentation, writing, photography, theatre set and costume designs and interior decoration. I establish queer readings of the visual language I identify by deploying a theoretical framework that accounts for relationships bet

() was born in Kent and soon nicknamed Rex. As a teenager he was sent to boarding school at Haileybury where he quickly learned his skills in art. After high university, the young Whistler was recognized at the Royal Acad&#;emy, but did not fit within the conditions set for instead to the Slade School of Art, Whistler met Stephen Tennant (&#;), soon to become one of his best friends. Through Tennant, Whistler later met the poet Siegfried Sassoon and, as we shall see, Edith Olivier. Except for being a peer of the realm and a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas (Oscar Wilde's lover), I cannot find what Stephen Tennant actually did with his er, on the other hand, was very busy. His oeuvre covered art projects of very different types, including manual illustration, paintings on canvas, theatrical and ballet sets, murals and posters. Most Whistler fans were probably not aware that he also created designs for Wedgwood er might have been born into a modest middle class family but was regularly invited into the homes of the noble and the fashionable to paint portraits, especially for the Marquess of

Rex Whistler self portrait.
Image: BBC.

While the great artistic talent of Rex Whistler cannot be denied, the contributions to his success made through his friendships should not be underestimated. His association with the 'Bright Young Things', as the group of young bohemian aristocrats and socialites of s London was dubbed, undoubtedly helped Whistler's stylistic development. As mentioned in the first post of this seriesof The Passionate Classicist, it started with his friendship with Stephen Tennant whom he met in art school. Another member of the alike set also known as the 'Bright Young People' was Tennant's best confidant Cecil Beaton.
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Rex Whistler as a shepherd.
Photo by Cecil Beaton.

Cecil Beaton was a fashion and world photographer known for his portraits of the royal family as well as the celebrities of the day. (He also achieved success after World War II for designing sets and costumes for stage and screen, notably "Gigi" and "My Fair Lady". both which earned Beaton an Oscar for Costume Design