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| Philip de László Portrait of Vita Sackville-West 1910 oil on canvas National Trust, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent |
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| William Strang Lady with a Red Hat (Vita Sackville-West) 1918 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| James Shannon Violet Lindsay, Duchess of Rutland (in Mucha-style operatic headdress) 1918 oil on canvas National Trust, Plas Newydd, Wales |
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| John Lavery Violet Keppel, Mrs. Denys Robert Trefusis 1919 oil on board National Trust, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent |
Hast thou known how I fashioned thee,
Child, underground?
Fire that impassioned thee,
Iron that bound,
Dim changes of water, what thing of all these hast thou known of or found?
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| Stanley Cursiter Black, White and Silver 1921 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Frank O. Salisbury Mrs. Wilson, Mayoress of Liverpool 1923 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Doris Zinkeisen Portrait of Elsa Lanchester ca. 1925 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Edward Wolfe Portrait of Madge Garland 1926 oil on canvas Geffrye Museum, London |
Mother, not maker,
Born, and not made;
Though her children forsake her,
Allured or afraid,
Praying prayers to the God of their fashion, she stirs not for all that have prayed.
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| Stanley Spencer Patricia Preece 1933 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Herbert James Gunn My Wife (Pauline Miller) ca. 1933 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
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| Gerald Brockhurst Jeunesse dorée 1934 oil on board Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
All form of all faces,
All work of all hands
In unsearchable places
In time-stricken lands,
All death and all life, and all reigns and all ruins, drop through me as sands.
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| Matthew Smith Madame Moreau ca. 1936-40 oil on canvas Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
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| Augustus John Dorothy Rose Burns née Duveen ca. 1940 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Robert Greenham Portrait of Martita Hunt 1944 oil on board National Portrait Gallery, London |
In the darkening and whitening
Abysses adored,
With dayspring and lightning
For lamp and for sword,
God thunders in heaven, and his angels are red with the wrath of the Lord.
– stanzas from Hertha (1869-70) by Algernon Charles Swinburne