George William Beldam (1868-1937)
Artist associated with 9 portraits
Beldam was one of the leading early photographers of sports personalities. An excellent golfer and cricketer, he produced books of 'action photographs' (a term he coined) on tennis, golf and jujitsu; his two most famous works were produced with C.B. Fry: Great Batsmen: Their Methods at a Glance (1905) and Great Bowlers and Fielders (1906). The books showed for the first time 'action photographs and actual experience' and could be used as practical manuals, breaking the tradition of a more staid form of posed photography. His photographs also provided the basis for A. Chevalier Taylor's celebrated series of colour lithographs of cricketers in action.
by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris
by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke
by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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copy by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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by Albert Chevallier Tayler, after a photograph by George William Beldam
lithograph, 1905
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