Alice Hughes (1857-1939)
Artist associated with 37 portraits
The eldest daughter of the society portrait painter Edward Hughes, she studied photography at the London Polytechnic and in 1891 opened a studio as the first gentlewoman professional photographer. She photographed her first royal sitter, the Duchess of Fife, with her baby, Princess Maud, in 1893. On the expiry of her lease in 1911 she sold her business, and later opened another studio on Ebury Street, where she operated until her retirement in 1927. Hughes worked in platinotype and started the fashion of being photographed in large hats and evening dress in the style of Reynolds and Gainsborough. She specialised in the graceful posing of mother and child groups.
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
albumen cabinet card, 1870s-1900s
NPG x46593
Elizabeth Henrietta (Kennedy), Countess of Clanwilliam
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1890s-1900s
NPG x45048
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x46595
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x46596
Ivor Herbert Ingleby; Florence Isabel Ingleby
by Alice Hughes
photogravure, 1890s-1900s
NPG x87146
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1894
NPG x45047
Blanche (née Maynard), Lady Gordon-Lennox
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1895
NPG x46597
William George Edmonstone; Ida Agnes Eleanor (Forbes), Lady Edmonstone
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1896
NPG x32994
Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Duchess of Galliera
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card, 1898
NPG x45049
Hon. Maynard Greville; Frances Evelyn ('Daisy') Greville (née Maynard), Countess of Warwick
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on card mount, 1899
NPG x13496
by Alice Hughes
modern platinum print, circa 1899
NPG x76713
Violet Trefusis; Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone)
printed by Tony White, after Alice Hughes
platinum copy print, 1994 (1899)
NPG x76714
Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
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by Alice Hughes
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 6 April 1901
NPG x136869
Georgina Elizabeth Ward (née Moncreiffe), Countess of Dudley
by Alice Hughes
platinum print, circa 1902
NPG x46594
Ada Coralie Meade-Waldo (née Baggallay)
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, circa 1903
NPG x38997
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
possibly by Alice Hughes
platinum print, 1904
NPG x135502
by Alice Hughes, published by Eglington & Co
carbon print on card mount, published 1893
NPG Ax27643
Georgina Elizabeth Ward (née Moncreiffe), Countess of Dudley
by Alice Hughes
bromide print, 1893
NPG x46590
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