Christina Broom
(1862-1939), PhotographerMrs Albert Broom (Christina Livingston)
Sitter in 4 portraits
Artist associated with 94 portraits
Britain's first woman press freelance photographer, Livingston photographed many Suffragette marches and the movement's key personalities. Educated at Claremont, Margate, she took her first photographs in 1903, becoming official photographer to HM Household Brigade, 1904-39. For thirty years she photographed the teams and action of the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race. A selection of her best work was shown in the NPG`s 1994 exhibition Edwardian Women Photographers. As well as the NPG's collection of her vintage prints and original negatives, other work can be found in the Museum of London, Imperial War Museum, Chelsea Library, and the Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas.
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x766
Dame (Esmerelda) Cicely Courtneidge
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x767
Dame (Florence) Lilian Braithwaite
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x768
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x928
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x929
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1904
NPG x930
'Royal Shooting Party, Windsor, 1906'
after Christina Broom
bromide postcard print, 1906
NPG x196910
King Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; King George V; Queen Mary; Princess Victoria of Wales
by and published by Christina Broom
vintage print, 23 May 1908
NPG x132093
Charlotte Despard (née French)
by Christina Broom
cream-toned velox print, 1908-1910
NPG x13391
King Edward VII; Queen Alexandra; King George V; Queen Mary; Princess Victoria of Wales
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 23 May 1908
NPG x538
Ethel Hook (Bertha Beatrice Butt)
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x1117
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x1137
Lena Ashwell (née Lena Margaret Pocock, later Lady Simson)
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x1138
Florence Jane (née Théleur), Lady Alexander with four unknown others
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x1140
by Christina Broom
glass negative, 1910s
NPG x171
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x200
Paul Aloysius Kenna; Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910
NPG x221
John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres
by Christina Broom
bromide print on card mount, 1910s
NPG x27570
Suffragette March in Hyde Park
by Christina Broom
cream-toned velox print, 23 July 1910
On display in Room 24 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x17396
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, 1910s
NPG x926
Related People
- Albert Edward Broom (husband)
- Winifred Margaret Broom (daughter)
- Margaret Livingston (sister)
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