Hugh Cecil
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Hugh Cecil Saunders (14 December 1889[1][2] – March 1974 Brighton) was an English photographer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, who practised under the professional name of Hugh Cecil.
Born in Kingston upon Thames to Frederick Atkinson Saunders and his wife, Mary Ann Roberta Walton, Hugh Cecil Saunders attended Tonbridge School and Queens' College Cambridge where he developed an interest in photography. At the Cambridge Photographic Society, he exhibited a number of landscapes, some of which won medals.
Upon graduation, Saunders served as an apprentice with the prominent
Hugh Cecil's photographs appeared regularly in the weekly
His portraits at the time included Gertrude Lawrence[1] and, in 1925, the then-Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) sat for the first of many royal sittings. He would later take the official photographs for postage stamps for Edward V111. In 1926 Cecil published his Book of Beauty, consisting of 37 photogravures accompanied by selected verses. Some of these unnamed subjects include studies of actress Juliette Compton, Justine Johnstone, Edna Best, Lady Diana Cooper and Viscountess Curzon.
Established as a success, he exhibited regularly at the London Salon of Photography and works appear in the annual Photograms of the Year between 1914-1928. Cecil had at least two pupil/assistants who established successful careers on their own
He died in Brighton in 1974.
External links
Exhibition Catalogue: Monday's Children: Photographs of the Fair and Famous of the 1920s and 1930s, published to accompany an exhibition at Impressions Gallery, York, 1977
- Brief biographical sketch at the National Portrait Gallery
References
- ^ Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917
- 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ "Ancestors of Hugh Cecil SAUNDERS". donaldfamily.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2022.