Mrs Patrick Campbell

1 portrait

by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1893
5 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in. (140 mm x 89 mm)
Purchased, 1983
Primary Collection
NPG P229

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Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell (née Tanner)) (1865-1940), Actress; former wife of Patrick Campbell and later wife of George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West. Sitter in 20 portraits.

Artistback to top

Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933), Photographer and art publisher. Artist associated with 100 portraits, Sitter associated with 6 portraits.

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Influenced by the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, Frederick Hollyer's softly lit and intimate portraits of friends and contemporaries form a revealing picture of cultural life in England in the late Victorian period.

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Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 135
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 98