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).