Olive Edis
(1876-1955), Photographer(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 17 portraits
Artist associated with 425 portraits
Olive Edis opened her first studio with her sister Katherine in early the 1900s in Sheringham, Norfolk specialising in fisherman and local nobilities. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with sepia platinotypes and pioneered colour autochrome portraits from 1912 onwards. Her sitters included Shaw, Hardy, Balfour, and Mrs Pankhurst. Olive Edis patented her own autochrome viewer. She photographed British Women's services and the battlefields of France and Flanders 1918-19 for the Imperial War Museum. She married Edwin Henry Galsworthy, a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy, 1928.
by Sarah Jane Dugdale (née Hartland)
half-plate autochrome, early 1900s
NPG x38479
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x7959
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45535
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45534
by Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45530
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45511
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45512
Olive Edis; Mary Edis (née Murray)
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45514
Olive Edis; Mary Edis (née Murray)
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45515
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45531
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45532
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45533
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45536
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45537
Related People
- Mary Edis (née Murray) (mother)
- Edwin Henry Galsworthy (husband)
- Katharine Legat (née Edis) (sister)
- Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis) (sister)
Comments back to top
We are currently unable to accept new comments, but any past comments are available to read below.
If you need information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service . Please note that we cannot provide valuations. You can buy a print or greeting card of most illustrated portraits. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. Prices start at around £6 for unframed prints, £16 for framed prints. If you wish to license an image, select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Use this image button, or contact our Rights and Images service. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled.
Related pages
- Mirror Mirror: Self-portraits by women artists
- Photographic holdings - print and negative collections
- Learn more
- Thomas Hardy
- Votes for women: pioneers
- Votes for women
- Rebel women
- Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury: inventing life
- Edwardian Women Photographers: Eveleen Myers, Alice Hughes, Christina Broom and Olive Edis
- Johnny Dewe-Mathews
- Jorge Lewinski
- Literati Photographs by Mark Gerson
- Rollie McKenna: Artists and Writers
- Karsh: 50 Years of Photographs by Yousuf Karsh