Olive Edis (1876-1955), Photographer
(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 17 portraits
Artist associated with 418 portraits
One of five daughters of architect Sir Robert Edis. Olive Edis opened her first studio with her sister Katherine in early the 1900s in Sheringham, Norfolk specialising in fisherman and local nobilities. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with Sepia Plationotypes and pioneered colour autochrome portraits from 1912 onwards. Her sitters included Shaw, Hardy, Balfour, and Mrs Pankhurst. Olive Edis patented her own autochrome viewer. She photographed British Women's services and the battlefields of France and Flanders 1918-19 for the Imperial War Museum. She married Edwin Henry Galsworthy, a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy, 1928.
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, 1890s
NPG x251
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x15493
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13049
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13050
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13051
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13052
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, 1900s
NPG x45535
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, 1900s
NPG x45534
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900-1917
NPG x11606
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, 1900s
NPG x11610
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x12876
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x12980
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x1343
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinotype on photographer's card, 1900s
NPG x14310
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, 1900s
NPG x15408
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, early 1900s
NPG x15419
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
bromide print, 1900s
NPG x15471
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x15490
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, 1900s
NPG x15539
by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x15554
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