Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock)
(1894-1930), Music scholar and composerSitter associated with 4 portraits
Composer (as Peter Warlock) and writer on music (as Philip Heseltine); received little formal training in music, but was greatly influenced in his compositions by Frederick Delius and Bernard van Dieren. Regarded pre-eminently as a composer of songs, including works such as the Corpus Christi carol (1919) and the song cycle The Curlew (1922); also a pioneer in the revival of 16th and 17th century music. A fearless and outspoken critic, he was the founder and editor of a musical journal The Sackbut (1920-1); the author of Frederick Delius (1923) and co-author with Cecil Gray of Carlo Gesualdo, Musician and Murderer (1926).
Unknown man, formerly known as Philip Arnold Heseltine
by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
woodcut, 1919
NPG 5377
Group including Frederick Delius and Philip Arnold Heseltine
by Ernest Procter
pencil, 1929
NPG 4975(8)
Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy; Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock); D.H. Lawrence
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 29 November 1915
NPG Ax140425
Antelope Tavern, 1929 (Bruce Blunt; Augustus John; Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock))
by Anthony Wysard
pen and ink and wash, 1929
NPG D306
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