Alice Hughes
Alice Mary Hughes (1857–1939) was a leading London portrait photographer specializing in images of fashionable women and children.[1]
Biography
Hughes was the eldest daughter of the portrait painter
First World War, she ran a business in Berlin but returned to London at the beginning of the war, opening a studio in Ebury Street in 1915.[3][4] The Ebury Street studio was not as successful as her first business and she closed it in 1933, retiring to Worthing where she died after a fall in her bedroom in 1939.[5]
From 1898 to 1909, she contributed several hundred portraits to Country Life. In 1910, she sold 50,000 negatives to Speaight Ltd.[5]
Assessment
A pioneer of portrait photography, Hughes developed a distinctive style "by fusing the conventions of society portraiture with the cool, monochromatic tones of the platinum print." (From Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.)[3]
Gallery
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Queen Mary (1905) -
Lady Jellicoe (1917) -
Pauline Astor (1904) -
Alexandra of Denmark (1902)
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References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65306. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Alice Hughes", National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Photographic Studio", UCL Bloomsbury project. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-486-26750-0. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ a b "Hughes, Alice Mary", photoLondon. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alice Hughes.
- Hughes, Alice (1923). My Father and I. T. Butterworth, Limited.
- Heron, Liz; Williams, Val (1996). Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present. I.B.Tauris. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-1-86064-041-4.
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