Malcolm Arbuthnot (1877-1967), Photographer and artist
Artist associated with 17 portraits
Born in Suffolk, he was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to a painter of cats, but photography had greater appeal for him. He took various clerical jobs during the 1890s to support his photography. Arbuthnot was elected to the Linked Ring in 1907 and became one of its more influential members. He married a Kodak heiress and became manager of Kodak's Liverpool branch in 1912, where he resumed his interest in painting and lectured on Van Gogh. In 1914 he established a studio on New Bond Street, London, and worked as a fashionable portrait photographer until 1926, when he moved to France to study sculpture. He then settled in Jersey and concentrated on watercolour painting, to great success.
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
platinotype mounted on photographer's card, circa 1915
NPG P785
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
photogravure postcard print, 1900s
NPG x135839
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
vintage bromide print, late 1900s
NPG x135836
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
postcard print, 1910s
NPG x27518
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG Ax160292
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG Ax160367
Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG Ax160369
Lillah McCarthy as Viola in 'Twelth Night'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
sepia platinum print, November 1912
NPG x128113
Lillah McCarthy in 'Twelfth Night'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
sepia platinum print, November 1912
NPG x128114
Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Galatea
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
bromide print, 1916
NPG x68857
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, late 1910s
NPG Ax160136
Elsie Janis in 'Hullo, America'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1918
NPG Ax160124
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
cream-toned print on card mount, early 1920s
NPG x39230
by Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson, after Malcolm Arbuthnot
woodcut, (1912)
NPG D695
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