Elliott & Fry
(active 1863-1962), PhotographersArtist associated with 10998 portraits
The firm of Elliott & Fry was founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott (1835-1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840-1897), who opened their first premises at 55 Baker Street where they stayed at until 1886. The firm employed a variety of operators who took the photographs, including Francis Henry Hart and Alfred James Philpott in the Edwardian era, Herbert Lambert and Walter Benington in the 1920s and 1930s and subsequently William Flowers. In the early 1940s the studio was bombed and most of the early negatives were destroyed. Shortly after the firm's Centenary in 1963 it was taken over by and amalgamated with Bassano & Vandyk. The National Portrait Gallery owns all the surviving negatives.
after a photograph by Elliott & Fry
watercolour, late 19th century, based on a work of 1872
NPG 3150
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1880s
NPG P1700(11c)
Angela Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Burdett-Coutts
by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1882
NPG P1700(16d)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus ('Paul') Kruger
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1883
NPG P1700(19b)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1890
NPG P513
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1890
NPG P1700(60a)
by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1893
NPG P1700(40a)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, mid 1890s
NPG P1700(66a)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1894
NPG P1660
by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1894 or before
NPG P1700(4d)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, circa 1894
NPG P1700(19c)
by John McLanachan, for Elliott & Fry
albumen print, circa 1894
NPG P1700(84b)
by Francis Henry Hart, for Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1896
NPG P1700(49a)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 1897 or before
NPG P1700(35e)
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, circa 1897
NPG P1700(44c)
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, early 1900s
NPG P1700(66e)
by Elliott & Fry
sepia-toned bromide print, 1904-1905
NPG P491
St Clair George Alfred Donaldson
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, circa 1904
NPG P1700(90b)
by Elliott & Fry
toned chlorobromide print, circa 1924
NPG P1363
by Henry Hering, copied by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1950s (late 1856-1857)
NPG x82368
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Katherine Ross
05 May 2022, 13:37
I have an Elliott & Fry carte de visite that is not in this collection. Written in pencil on the back is the name Edith Millar.
Francisco Cayol
22 September 2020, 01:14
I have an original Elliott & Fly picture and it is not here.
He is perhaps Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.
Carol Bennett
02 October 2018, 13:07
On the 'various bishops and others' page above, Nos. 1411 to 15 are Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln from 1869 to 1885. He was the nephew of the poet William Wordsworth and he wrote the poet's first biography.
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Beverley Mattocks Osborne
07 May 2022, 17:25
I have a photo of my grandfather, Robert Henry Mattocks, taken by Elliott and Fry, when my grandfather was President of the Town Planning Institute, 1941