Walter Benington: Pictorial portraits
Albert Einstein
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
18 May 1928
NPG x82213
PAST DISPLAY ARCHIVE
9 December 2006 - 17 June 2007
Room 31 case display
Biography| In the Collection: Walter Benington
This display celebrates the portrait photographs of the pictorialist photographer Walter Benington (1872-1936) and shows for the first time a selection of newly acquired works focusing on his 'at home' images of leading artistic, literary, political and scientific figures.
Benington's subjects include innovative dance teacher Margaret Morris, the artists Alfred Wolmark and Philip de László, the author of A History of Europe (1935) H.A.L. Fisher, television pioneer John Logie Baird, women writers George Egerton and Storm Jameson as well as Albert Einstein photographed in 1921 whilst visiting London to present his theories of Relativity.
The National Portrait Gallery would like to thank Rob Crow, who has generously shared his comprehensive research on Walter Benington's photographic oeuvre and helped curate this display.
John Logie Baird
by Walter Benington
1920s
NPG P968
Philip Alexius de László
by Walter Benington
1928
NPG P970
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
by Walter Benington
1920s
NPG P975
Compton Mackenzie
by Walter Benington
1920s
NPG P976
Alfred Wolmark
by Walter Benington
1920s
NPG P982
Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
late 1920s
NPG x94118
Related portraits
- Alfred Wolmark (NPG P982)
- John Logie Baird (NPG P968)
- Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (NPG P975)
- Compton Mackenzie (NPG P976)
- Philip Alexius de László (NPG P970)
- Irene Rooke (NPG x26416)
- Margaret Morris (NPG x128743)
- Humbert Wolfe (NPG x94123)
- Margaret Ethel ('Storm') Jameson (NPG x89974)
- Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman (NPG x94118)
- Albert Einstein (NPG x82213)
- George Brown Burgin (NPG x90654)
- Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth (NPG x92072)
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (NPG x90711)
- George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne) (NPG x94119)
- Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris) (NPG x90235)
- Sir Ambrose Heal (NPG x91145)
- Sir (John) Ambrose Fleming (NPG x91858)
Related sitters
- Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris)
- John Logie Baird
- George Brown Burgin
- Philip Alexius de László
- George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne)
- Albert Einstein
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
- Sir (John) Ambrose Fleming
- Sir Ambrose Heal
- Margaret Ethel ('Storm') Jameson
- Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth
- Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
- Sir (Edward Montague Anthony) Compton Mackenzie
- Margaret Morris
- Irene Rooke
- Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman
- Humbert Wolfe
- Alfred Aaron Wolmark