Gordon Anthony

He was born James Gordon Dawson Stannus in Wicklow, Ireland on 23 December 1902.

Anthony started working in photography in 1926, making images of the students at his sister's ballet school in London.

[3] His sister, Dame Ninette de Valois, was a ballet dancer in Diaghilev's company.

[1] Anthony's photographs are held in major collection including the Victoria and Albert Museum[4] and the National Portrait Gallery.

[3] Among his portraits are the economist John Maynard Keynes, the actors Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, and critic Sacheverell Sitwell,[5] theatre director Lilian Baylis, sculptor Jacob Epstein's wife Kathleen Garman[6] and dancers Margot Fonteyn and Alicia Markova.