Bright young things

The Bright Young People at Wilsford: William Walton, Cecil Beaton, The Hon. Stephen Tennant, Rex Whistler, Georgia Sitwell, Zita Jungman and Teresa Jungman

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A new exhibition in the UK features Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things of the 1920s

Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things to feature in a major exhibition at National Portrait Gallery.

Reginald Whistler (1905-44) 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 school, the young Whistler was accepted at the Royal Acad­emy, but did not fit within the conditions set for students. Going instead to the Slade School of Art, Whistler met Stephen Tennant (1906–1987), soon to become one of his best friends. Through Tennant, Whistler later met the poet Siegfried Sassoon and, as…

Photograph by Cecil Beaton 1930 The generation that came of age in the aftermath of the First World War and the Spanish Flu did a lot more than just bob their hair and drink all the time. Well, they did do those things too, but let’s take a closer look at those party animals of the roaring 20s a