Parent Record(s)

LevelItem

ReferencePH/4/551

Artist / Photographer

Luckhurst, Nigel

Title

Benjamin Britten with his guests in the garden of the Red House, Aldeburgh

Date12 Jun 1976

DescriptionPhotograph of Britten seated in his wheelchair talking to Lady Cranbrook. Behind Lady Cranbrook stands, from left to right, an unidentified woman (possibly Mrs Marshall B. Sutton, President of the Canadian Friends of the Festival) in conversation with Kathleen Mitchell, with an unidentified woman and Charles Gifford standing behind them. On Lady Cranbrook's left, at the back of the picture, stands Dr Walter Otto. Behind Britten is Lady Melville, Sir Eugene Melville, Donald Mitchell and Beth Britten. The occasion is the party held to celebrate Britten being created a life peer.
Photographer: Nigel Luckhurst

Extent1 photograph

Physical DescriptionBlack and white; 16.8 x 11.11cms.

CopyrightNigel Luckhurst (http://www.nigelluckhurst.co.uk/)

Publication NoteReproduced in 'Pictures from a Life', compiled by Mitchell and Evans (1978) image no.422

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