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Lewis then also produced many of the portraits for which he is well-known, including pictures of Edith Sitwell ( 1923 – 36 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1938 and again in 1949 ) and Ezra Pound ( 1939 ).

The rejection of the 1938 portrait of Eliot by the selection committee of the Royal Academy for their annual exhibition caused a furore, with front-page headlines prompted by the resignation of Augustus John in protest.

However, no less an authority than Walter Sickert once claimed that: ' Wyndham Lewis the greatest portraitist of this or any other time ', though it was left to Lewis to make this statement public.