Adams, Park and Gregory: Photographs 1910s - 1950s
Past display archive
5 March - 25 October 2009
Room 31 case display
Free
Madame Guilhermina Suggia
by Bertram Park
5 February 1925
NPG x131923
Gilbert Adams, the third generation of a family of photographers, opened his first photographic business in Reading in 1934. He was active in the promotion of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1949 was made a Council Member. Adams had began his photographic career assisting his father Marcus Adams (1857–1959) and his partner Bertram Park in a business that Park had originally set up in 1916 with his wife, the miniature painter Yvonne Gregory.
Thanks to the financial help of Lord Carnarvon, Park and Gregory opened their first studio off Piccadilly in Dover Street. In 1919 Marcus Adams, joined them to form a third partner operating a children’s studio. Known as ‘The Trinity of Dover Street’ Park, Gregory and Adams worked together within the same firm but in their own distinctive studios until 1958. This arrangement allowed them to work independently but with shared printing and dark room facilities. They are best known for their portraits of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with their daughters the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
Related portraits
- Yvonne Gregory (NPG x11825)
- Fay Compton as Mary Rose (NPG x131934)
- Lily Elsie (NPG x131929)
- George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (NPG x131928)
- Isadora Duncan (NPG x131935)
- Madame Guilhermina Suggia (NPG x131923)
- Dod Procter (NPG x131926)
- Maurice Lambert's studio ('The Cymbalist') (NPG x132012)
- Maurice Lambert; Olga Marie Stuart Lambert (née Morrison) (NPG x132013)
- Maurice Lambert (NPG x132016)
- Maurice Lambert (NPG x132010)
- Bertram Park (NPG x32757)
- John Gielgud as Richard II in 'Richard of Bordeaux' (NPG x132020)
- Maurice Lambert (NPG x132031)
- Maurice Lambert's sculpture (NPG x132032)
- Elizabeth Kennard Whittington (née Smith), Lady Rothenstein (NPG x131933)
- Sven Paul Berlin (NPG x131924)
- John Stuart Lloyd Barnes (NPG x131922)
- H.M. Bateman (NPG x131925)
- Peter Lanyon (NPG x131921)
Related sitters
- John Stuart Lloyd Barnes
- Henry Mayo ('H.M.') Bateman
- Sven Paul Berlin
- George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
- Fay Compton (née Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie)
- Isadora Duncan
- Lily Elsie (Mrs Bullough)
- Sir John Gielgud
- Yvonne Gregory
- Maurice Lambert
- Olga Marie Stuart Lambert (née Morrison)
- (George) Peter Lanyon
- Bertram Park
- Doris Margaret ('Dod') Procter (née Shaw)
- Elizabeth Kennard Whittington (née Smith), Lady Rothenstein
- Madame Guilhermina Suggia