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).
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x88039
by Vivienne
bromide print mounted on card, late 1950s
NPG x133230
Vijayalakshmi Pandit (née Sarup Kumari Nehru)
by Vivienne
bromide print mounted on card, late 1950s
NPG x133231
Dame Thora Hird (Dame Thora Scott)
by Vivienne
bromide print mounted on card, late 1950s
NPG x133232
by Vivienne
bromide print mounted on card, late 1950s
NPG x133233
by Vivienne
bromide print mounted on card, late 1950s
NPG x133234
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x29888
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45168
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45169
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45170
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45171
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45172
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45173
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45174
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45175
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1951
NPG x45176
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, September 1951
NPG x45177
Antony Beauchamp (son)
