Portrait photograph of Rupert Brooke by [Schell, Sherril, photographer] - 1913

n.p., 1913. Vintage gelatin silver print half-length portrait, matted. 1 vols. n.p. Light creasing and surface abrasion to image, wear to mat. Vintage gelatin silver print half-length portrait, matted. 1 vols. n.p. Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell. A vintage portrait photograph of Rubert Brooke by the American photographer Sherril Schell, "... the photographer who would one day make [Brooke's] appearance more familiar than his poems" (Hassall, Rupert Brooke, p. 384). Schell took 12 portraits of Brooke. The last, a profile view with Brooke's shoulders bare, became the iconic image of the poet: it was used as the frontispiece to his 1914 & Other Poems and provided the model for a memorial plaque in Rugby Chapel.
This portrait was used as the frontispiece to the posthumously published Letters from America (1916).
From the collection of poet Frances Cornford, granddaughter of Charles Darwin and close friend of Rupert Brooke. Provenance: Frances Cornford (née Darwin)