Dame Margot Fonteyn
Dame Margot Fonteyn
3D
Published 2019-05-13T11:57:00+00:00
Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-91) was a British Ballerina. Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, she attended the Vic-Wells Ballet School, and by the time she was twenty had danced the lead in three great classics: Giselle, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She later joined Lilian Baylis's Sadler's Wells Company where she became emotionally involved with the composer Constant Lambert, brother of the sculptor of this portrait, who wrote Horoscope (1938) for her. She danced the lead in his Tiresias (1951). Fonteyn returned to the state from semi-retirement to dance with Rudolf Nureyev at his debut with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, in 1962, and together formed one of the greatest ballet partnerships of the twentieth century.
Bronze, 1956
| Date published | 13/05/2019 |
| Complexity | Difficult |
| Title | Dame Margot Fonteyn |
| Date | 1956 |
| Dimension | 15 1/8 in. x 9 in. (385 mm x 230 mm) overall |
| Accession | NPG 6033 |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | Purchased, 1989 |
| Record | https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07367/Margot-Fonteyn |
| Artist | Maurice Lambert |
| Place | National Portrait Gallery |
