Despite his famous name, the artist Henry Strachey (1863-1940) has never had much prominence at auction, with only around a dozen works having ever emerged.
The son of the author Sir Edward Strachey (1812-1901) and cousin of writer and Bloomsbury Group Lytton Strachey, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and exhibited works at a number of London dealers and public galleries.
Although he also became the art critic of The Spectator magazine in 1896 and wrote a study of Raphael for George Bell & Sons’ ‘Great Masters’ series, information about his work as an artist is surprisingly scarce.