Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
Portrait by Lafayette Ltd, 1920s
A 1932 Standard Rolleiflex, a type of camera used by Beaton
Cecil Beaton self portraits: Cecil Beaton (in civilian suit) and his Rolleiflex reflected in a mirror of the Jain temple, Calcutta, India.
Queen Fawzia Fuad Chirine with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and their daughter, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi in Tehran during the Second World War. Photo by Cecil Beaton.
Barbara Jessica Hardy Beaton, known as Baba Beaton, was an English socialite who, together with her sister, Nancy, was known as one of the Beaton Sisters, and was included in The Book of Beauty by their brother, Cecil Beaton.
George Spencer Watson (1869–1934) - Portrait of Miss Beaton
Cecil Beaton, and his sisters, Nancy and Barbara
Wedding dress with orange-blossom choker, 1934, for Baba Beaton. V&A Museum