Alice Hughes
(1857-1939), PhotographerArtist associated with 54 portraits
The eldest daughter of the society portrait painter Edward Hughes, she studied photography at the London Polytechnic and in 1891 opened a studio as the first gentlewoman professional photographer. She photographed her first royal sitter, the Duchess of Fife, with her baby, Princess Maud, in 1893. On the expiry of her lease in 1911 she sold her business, and later opened another studio on Ebury Street, where she operated until her retirement in 1927. Hughes worked in platinotype and started the fashion of being photographed in large hats and evening dress in the style of Reynolds and Gainsborough. She specialised in the graceful posing of mother and child groups.
by Alice Hughes
photogravure, 1905
NPG P423
Elizabeth Henrietta (née Kennedy), Countess of Clanwilliam
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1890s-1900s
NPG x45048
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
albumen cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x46593
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x46595
Evelyn Elizabeth Brinton (née Forbes)
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x46596
Ivor Herbert Ingleby; Florence Isabel Ingleby
by Alice Hughes
photogravure, 1890s-1900s
NPG x87146
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x202588
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by Alice Hughes, published by Eglington & Co
carbon print, published 1893
NPG Ax27643
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1894
NPG x45047
Blanche (née Maynard), Lady Gordon-Lennox
by Alice Hughes
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1895
NPG x46597
William George Edmonstone; Ida Agnes Eleanor Edmonstone (née Forbes), Lady Edmonstone
by Alice Hughes
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1896
NPG x32994
Eugenie Louise Judith Sassoon (née Perugia) as La Dogeressa
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41046
Dame Margaret Helen Greville (née Anderson) as Mary Seaton in the Elizabethan Procession
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41049
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41060
Susan Violet Erskine (née Ashley-Cooper), Countess of Mar and Kellie as Dante's Beatrice
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41081
Kathleen (née Douglas-Pennant), Viscountess Falmouth as Madame Recamier
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41097
Susannah Graham Menzies (née Wilson, later Lady Holford) as Titania, Queen of the Fairies
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41102
Marie Rothschild (née Perugia) as Zobeida
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41119
Beatrix Frances Gertrude (née Herbert), Countess of Wicklow as Signora Bacelli after Gainsborough
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41123
Evelyn Achille de Rothschild as a page to the Doge's Wife
by Alice Hughes, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41174
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