The National Portrait Gallery provides more than 60 images of TS Eliot, including paintings, busts and photographs.
Getty Images hold more than 70 images under TS Eliot, including both the Hulton Archive and LIFE collections of photos.
The Faber archive contains photographs of Eliot during his literary life, together with images of his published works, his letters, drawings and reader reports, and the office in which he worked.
Photographs
(in approximate chronological order)
A six-year-old Eliot, reading on the porch of his childhood summer home
TS Eliot in the 1910 Class Album, Harvard
TS Eliot and his mother, c.1918
TS Eliot’s freshman group photograph, Merton College, Oxford
TS Eliot photographed by Virginia Woolf, in one of her Monks House albums
TS Eliot with EM Forster, probably at Virginia Woolf’s house c.1922
TS Eliot & WB Yeats, at a luncheon given by Kenneth Ballard Murdock in c. 1925.
TS Eliot & Virginia Woolf, circa 1932
TS Eliot by Man Ray, 1935
TS Eliot by George Platt Lynes, 1947
TS Eliot having just received the Nobel Prize, in 1948 (alongside Swiss Scientist Paul Mueller who won that year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine)
TS Eliot by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine, 1951 – and a version hanging in the Athenaeum
TS Eliot by Irving Penn, 1950 and 1960
TS Eliot by Cecil Beaton, 1956
TS Eliot by John Loengard, 1956
TS Eliot’s signed passport photograph, 1956
TS and Valerie Eliot by Richard Avedon, 1958
TS Eliot by Horst Tappe, 1964
TS Eliot in Russell Square Underground station, photo from the journals of George Seferis; a dedication on the back reads: “Inscribed to George Seferis by a brother poet.”
TS & Valerie Eliot, at home
TS Eliot on the beach, trousers rolled…
Before performance of The Elder Statesman, TS Eliot in London’s West End (with cat!)
Portraits
TS Eliot by William Rothenstein, 1933 pencil portrait
TS Eliot by Wyndham Lewis, 1930s, pen, ink, coloured pencil and washes
TS Eliot by Wyndham Lewis, study for his subsequent portrait
In a brief newsreel clip from 1938, Wyndham Lewis discusses the rejection by the Royal Academy of his famous portrait of TS Eliot
The rarely-seen working studies by Patrick Heron, in preparation for his portrait of Eliot
Two portraits of TS Eliot included in the sale of Valerie Eliot’s art collection; a 1946 watercolour by RH Wilenski – and a charcoal portrait by Bernard Fuchs.
A portrait of TS Eliot by Ronald Searle, produced for a series Heroes of Our Time, published in Punch in the late 1950s. Details and a preliminary sketch are here.
TS Eliot on the Tube, 1962, drawn by Feliks Topolski
TS Eliot by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly, 1962 portrait, and 1961 predecessor
Pen and ink portrait of TS Eliot by Leib Chigrin, 2016
Illustrations & Caricatures
Caricature of TS Eliot by Ted Scheel, published at the time of The Cocktail Party
TS Eliot on the cover of Time magazine, 1950
TS Eliot, younger, older, and again, by US literary illustrator David Levine
TS Eliot by US illustrator Bernie Fuchs
TS Eliot by US caricaturist and muralist Edward Sorel
TS Eliot by Ralph Steadman, and as used in a poster for an Eliot commemorative event in 1988
Other
TS Eliot on a US postage stamp
TS Eliot on the cover of the Saturday Review, 13th Sept 1958
Rare film footage of TS Eliot at the opening of the Sheffield University Library, 1959
A remarkable film captures TS Eliot and other members of the initial production of Murder in the Cathedral a week after the play’s first performance on the 15th June 1935,