Glyn Philpot

Glyn Warren Philpot RA (5 October 1884 – 16 December 1937) was a British painter and sculptor, best known for his portraits of contemporary figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Vladimir Rosing.

He was a member of the International Society from 1913 and in that year he was awarded the gold medal at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

[5] This enabled him to afford to travel to France, Italy, America and North Africa and continue to paint less commercially successful subject pictures.

Following the Symbolist tradition his subject pictures reflected more personal concerns and contradictions: Philpot converted to Catholicism, yet his interest in the male nude and portraits of young men – thought to be friends, models and lovers – show his gradual acceptance and expression of his own homosexuality.

[6] The 2022 Pallant House Gallery exhibition included a portrait of Paul Robeson as Othello, hitherto thought lost.