Bright young things

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Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Georgia Sitwell, William Walton, Stephen Tennant, Teresa Jungman, and Zita Jungman. Photographed by Cecil Beaton. Andrew Graham-Dixon set the stage in his Sunday Telegraph review of the 2006 Rex Whistler exhibition at the Brighton Museum. "October 1927 Cecil Beaton contrived a photograph of “the bright young things”, as they styled themselves, to which he gave the laconic title On The Bridge, Wilsford. Seven young men and women pose for the camera, all dressed up…

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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…

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