Bacon, Peggy JIOHN STRACHEY. Four sheets of portrait sketches, Charcoal, each signed, one annotated with the subject's name, lower right, 14 x 9 3/4 inches (sheets). Small creases tears and losses at the edges, else in very good condition.John Strachey, 1901-1963, was British author and journalist, and a politician who served, first as Minister ofFood, and later as Secretary of State for War in the postwar Labour government of Clement Atlee.