Cavendish Morton
(1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film directorSitter associated with 15 portraits
Artist associated with 115 portraits
The actor, art director and photographer Cavendish Morton was born in New York to British parents. He took up photography in the late 1890s, photographing an actor in Lillie Langtry's production of The Degenerates. Morton had a studio at 60 Primrose Mansions, Battersea Park, London. He specialised in stage and society portraits, experimented with the autochrome process and became a leading photographer of the Edwardian period.
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x128824
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x128825
by Cavendish Morton
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x200575
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x45646
Cavendish Morton; Sir Harry Lauder as Wee Silly Willy Winks in 'The Saftest O' The Family'
by Cavendish Morton
halftone reproduction, 1904
NPG x128804
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1905
NPG x128848
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More in the 'Chelsea Historical pageant'
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45648
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45647
Cavendish Morton as Sir Thomas More in the 'Chelsea Historical pageant' with fourteen actors
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45649
Cavendish Morton with five clerics
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, 1908
NPG x45650
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)); Cavendish Morton
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1909
NPG x135351
Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)); Cavendish Morton
by Cavendish Morton
photogravure, circa 1909
NPG x135358
Cavendish Morton as St Dunstan
by Cavendish Morton, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1909
NPG x135421
by Hector Ernest Murchison
gum bichromate print on card mount, 1911
NPG x46658
by Cavendish Morton
woodcut, early 1900s
NPG D16544
Related People
- Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) (wife)
- Cavendish Morton (son)
- Concord Morton (father)
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