Reginald Sherring Partridge,, generally known as Ralph Partridge, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He worked for Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf, married Dora Carrington and then Frances Marshall, and was the unrequited love of Lytton Strachey.
Ralph Partridge (c.1918)
Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, Lytton and Oliver Strachey, and Frances Marshall (later Partridge); snapshot by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1923
Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge and Lytton Strachey
Dora de Houghton Carrington, known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey. From her time as an art student, she was known simply by her surname as she considered Dora to be "vulgar and sentimental". She was not well known as a painter during her lifetime, as she rarely exhibited and did not sign her work. She worked for a while at the Omega Workshops, and for the Hogarth Press, designing woodcuts.
Carrington with Lytton Strachey
Carrington's portrait of E. M. Forster, 1924–25
Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Partridge (née Marshall), 1923.
Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; W. J. H. ('Sebastian') Sprott; Lytton Strachey, June 1926