John Somerset Murray (1904-1992)
Sitter in 1 portrait
Artist of 24 portraits
A grandson of John Murray, calotypist of India, and cousin of the portraitist Olive Edis, he opened his own portrait studio in Chelsea in 1933. Shortly afterwards he turned to commercial photography including working for Pilkington Glass. With Winifred Casson he executed solarised and surrealist photographs, which were shown at the Chelsea Studio Club in the 1950s. He later took up electronic engineering.
Mary Cranford Hitchens (née Coates); Ivon Hitchens
by John Somerset Murray
resin print, September 1929
NPG x68221
by John Somerset Murray
gelatine chloride print on gold-toned printing-out paper, 1934
NPG x15478
by John Somerset Murray
gelatine chloride print on gold-toned printing-out paper, 1934
NPG x15479
by John Somerset Murray
gelatine chloride print on gold-toned printing-out paper, 1934
NPG x15480
Mary Cranford Hitchens (née Coates)
by John Somerset Murray
resin print, circa 1935
NPG x68222
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