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Vivienne (1889-1982), Photographer, miniaturist, singer, wife of Ernest Entwistle

Artist of 196 portraits
(Mrs Florence Entwistle). Florence Vivienne Mellish first trained and performed as a singer. On marriage to Ernest Entwistle, an artist, she took up a sussessful career as a miniaturist. She began her photographic career in 1934 assisting her husband and son, Anthony Beauchamp. When the latter left to set up his own studio she adopted the name Vivienne and opened her own studio photographing inter alia five successive prime ministers. Other portraits are collected in her autobiography They Came to My Studio (1956).

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Margaret Leighton

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1939-1940s
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Vivien Leigh

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945
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Flora Robson

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
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Flora Robson

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
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Flora Robson

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
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Dawn Addams

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1948-1950
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Sally Cooper

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1948-1955
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(Edwin) Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s-1960s
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Clement Attlee

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Clement Attlee

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x45166

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Alan Badel

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Alan Badel

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Robert Beatty

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Bernard Braden

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
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Bernard Braden

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
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Dora Bryan

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Joyce Carey

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Helen Cherry

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
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Helen Cherry

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
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Sir Robin Day

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1958
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Yvonne Furneaux

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Joan Greenwood

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Dulcie Gray

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Dulcie Gray

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Frankie Howerd

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Megs Jenkins

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Adele Leigh

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Margaret Leighton

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Jayne Mansfield

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Jayne Mansfield

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Mickey Hargitay

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller

by Vivienne
chlorobromide print, 1950s
NPG x6046

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Tyrone Edmund Power

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x6049

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Susan Maughan

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Susan Maughan

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Susan Maughan

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Robert Adolf Wilton Morley

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
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Doretta Morrow

by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
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Antony Beauchamp (son)