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, 1939-1940s
NPG x87958
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
NPG x88020
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
NPG x88021
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1945-1956
NPG x88022
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1948-1950
NPG x87896
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1948-1955
NPG x87918
(Edwin) Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s-1960s
NPG x22351
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x45165
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
NPG x45166
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
NPG x87905
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
NPG x87907
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
NPG x87908
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950s
On display at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, UK in the exhibition 'Tickling Jock: Comedy Greats from Sir Harry Lauder to Billy Connolly'
NPG x87910
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1950-1956
NPG x87913
Antony Beauchamp (son)
