Elliott & Fry
(active 1863-1962), PhotographersArtist associated with 10989 portraits
The firm of Elliott & Fry was founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott (1835-1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840-1897), who opened their first premises at 55 Baker Street where they stayed at until 1886. The firm employed a variety of operators who took the photographs, including Francis Henry Hart and Alfred James Philpott in the Edwardian era, Herbert Lambert and Walter Benington in the 1920s and 1930s and subsequently William Flowers. In the early 1940s the studio was bombed and most of the early negatives were destroyed. Shortly after the firm's Centenary in 1963 it was taken over by and amalgamated with Bassano & Vandyk. The National Portrait Gallery owns all the surviving negatives.
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron Vansittart
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x81823
Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x81835
Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x81836
Irene Mary Bewick Ward, Baroness Ward of North Tyneside
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x81837
William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x81839
King George VI; Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII)
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative
NPG x81847
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Carol Bennett
02 October 2018, 13:07
On the 'various bishops and others' page above, Nos. 1411 to 15 are Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln from 1869 to 1885. He was the nephew of the poet William Wordsworth and he wrote the poet's first biography.