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Photographs by Eveleen Myers, 1880s-1910s


145 Portraits in set

Eveleen Myers (1856-1937) began her photographic career in 1888 in order to record the early lives of her three children Leo, Silvia and Harold. She was inspired to take up photography from memories of a visit to Julia Margaret Cameron. Myers experimented with Cameron’s Pre-Raphaelite style and she specialised in studies of children, genre scenes and portraits of eminent contemporaries such as Gladstone, Browning, her own sister, Dorothy Tennant, the artist, and the explorer, Henry Morton Stanley.

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John Addington Symonds, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x19819

John Addington Symonds

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia carbon print, 1880s
NPG x19819

John Addington Symonds, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x19820

John Addington Symonds

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia carbon print, 1880s
NPG x19820

'In Leckhampton fields', by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68422

'In Leckhampton fields'

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia-toned platinotype print, early 1880s
NPG Ax68422

Albert George Dew-Smith, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68568

Albert George Dew-Smith

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
albumen print, 1888
NPG Ax68568

Albert George Dew-Smith, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68769

Albert George Dew-Smith

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
albumen print, 1888
NPG Ax68769

Robert Browning, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x19812

Robert Browning

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG x19812

Robert Browning, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x4826

Robert Browning

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x4826

Robert Browning, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x12535

Robert Browning

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x12535

Robert Browning, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x1501

Robert Browning

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print on cream card mount, August 1889
NPG x1501

Harold Hawthorn Myers, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68413

Harold Hawthorn Myers

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG Ax68413

'Brave boy', by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68416

'Brave boy'

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG Ax68416

Sir Leslie Stephen, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax36302

Sir Leslie Stephen

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, circa 1890
NPG Ax36302

Eleanor Butcher, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68559

Eleanor Butcher

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG Ax68559

Sir Francis Galton, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG x19814

Sir Francis Galton

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890s
NPG x19814

William James, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68776

William James

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax68776

Sir Edmund William Gosse, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax36306

Sir Edmund William Gosse

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG Ax36306

Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Bt, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax36303

Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Bt

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax36303

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax68557

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax68557

Peggy Lewis, by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) - NPG Ax36316

Peggy Lewis

by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG Ax36316