Olive Edis
(1876-1955), Photographer(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 17 portraits
Artist associated with 425 portraits
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 platinotypes 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 Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1935
NPG x7207
by Olive Edis
bromide postcard print on card mount, 1935
NPG x16345
by Olive Edis
bromide postcard print, 1935
NPG x16346
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1936
NPG x7208
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1936
NPG x16347
by Olive Edis
postcard print, 1936
NPG x22526
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1936
NPG x22527
by Olive Edis
bromide print on photographer's card mount, 1936
NPG x22528
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1936
NPG x38999
by Olive Edis
sepia matte print on photographer's card mount, before 1938
NPG x7958
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1939
NPG x13308
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1942
NPG x5211
by Olive Edis
platinum print
NPG x15563
Lady Isabella Geddes (née Gamble Ross)
by Olive Edis
bromide print on photographer's card mount, 1900-1930
NPG x15405
Related People
- Mary Edis (née Murray) (mother)
- Edwin Henry Galsworthy (husband)
- Katharine Legat (née Edis) (sister)
- Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis) (sister)
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