Cavendish Morton
(1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film directorSitter associated with 15 portraits
Artist associated with 115 portraits
The actor, art director and photographer Cavendish Morton was born in New York to British parents. He took up photography in the late 1890s, photographing an actor in Lillie Langtry's production of The Degenerates. Morton had a studio at 60 Primrose Mansions, Battersea Park, London. He specialised in stage and society portraits, experimented with the autochrome process and became a leading photographer of the Edwardian period.
Katharine Frances Asquith (née Horner)
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1907
NPG x128807
Audrey Joyce Lucia Gibson (née Stamp); Alice Maud Stamp (née Hunt)
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print on photographer's paper mount, circa 1907
NPG x128823
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan))
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, late 1900s
NPG x134901
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1907
NPG x135380
Henry Renouf as Jim Poulett in 'The Edge of the Storm'
by Cavendish Morton
matte bromide postcard print, late 1900s
NPG x135422
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1907
NPG x144151
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) as Rosamond
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print on card mount, 1908
NPG x128822
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1908
NPG x128826
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More in the 'Chelsea Historical pageant'
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45648
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45647
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More in the 'Chelsea Historical pageant' with fourteen actors
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45649
Cavendish Morton with five clerics
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45650
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) as Isabella
by Cavendish Morton, published by Charles William Faulkner & Co ('C.W.F. & Co')
glossy postcard print, 1909
NPG x128820
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) as Isabella
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print on card mount, 1909
NPG x128821
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan))
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1909
NPG x45651
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan))
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1909
NPG x45652
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan))
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1909
NPG x45653
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) as Isabella
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1909
NPG x45654
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)); Cavendish Morton
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1909
NPG x135351
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)); Cavendish Morton
by Cavendish Morton
photogravure, circa 1909
NPG x135358
Related People
- Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) (wife)
- Cavendish Morton (son)
- Concord Morton (father)
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