Malcolm Arbuthnot
(1877-1967), Photographer and artistMalcolm Arbuthnot (Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parson)
Artist associated with 23 portraits
Born in Surrey, 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
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
photogravure postcard print, 1900s
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
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Beatrice Gladys Lillie (Lady Peel)
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
bromide postcard print, 1910s
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
bromide postcard print, 1910s
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Lillah McCarthy as Viola in 'Twelfth Night'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
sepia platinum print, November 1912
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Lillah McCarthy in 'Twelfth Night'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
sepia platinum print, November 1912
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Mary Anderson (Mrs de Navarro) as Galatea
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
vintage bromide print, 1916
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, late 1910s
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Elsie Janis in 'Hullo, America'
by Malcolm Arbuthnot
matte bromide postcard print, 1918
On display in Room 25 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
postcard print, early 1920s
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by Malcolm Arbuthnot
vintage bromide print, early 1920s
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by William Nicholson, after Malcolm Arbuthnot
woodcut, (1912)
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