Olive Edis
(1876-1955), Photographer(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 17 portraits
Artist associated with 425 portraits
Olive Edis opened her first studio with her sister Katherine in early the 1900s in Sheringham, Norfolk specialising in fisherman and local nobilities. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with sepia platinotypes and pioneered colour autochrome portraits from 1912 onwards. Her sitters included Shaw, Hardy, Balfour, and Mrs Pankhurst. Olive Edis patented her own autochrome viewer. She photographed British Women's services and the battlefields of France and Flanders 1918-19 for the Imperial War Museum. She married Edwin Henry Galsworthy, a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy, 1928.
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1890s
NPG x251
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x15493
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13049
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13050
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13051
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13052
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900-1917
NPG x11606
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x11610
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x12876
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x12980
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x1343
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card, 1900s
NPG x14310
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, circa 1900
NPG x15406
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x15408
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, early 1900s
NPG x15419
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1900s
NPG x15471
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x15490
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1900
NPG x15507
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographers' card mount, 1900s
NPG x15539
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x15554
by Olive Edis
platinum print on card mount, 1900s
NPG x16323
possibly by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x16378
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1900-1930
NPG x16379
by Olive Edis
platinotype on cream card mount, 1900-1930
NPG x5195
Helen Rose (née Banks), Lady Dewar
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x5200
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print on photographer's card mount, early 1900s
NPG x5204
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, 1900-1930
NPG x5215
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1900-1907
NPG x61
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900-1930
NPG x6876
Muriel Ivy (née Duncan), Lady Anderson
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print, 1900-1930
NPG x84
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x45348
Unknown aunt of Sir Eric Campbell Geddes and Auckland Campbell Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print, 1900s
NPG x196239
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1900s
NPG x13053
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print, 1902
NPG x1166
by Olive Edis
platinotype mounted on grey board, circa 1902
NPG x4830
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1902
NPG x60
Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, circa 1903
NPG x13812
Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
by Olive Edis
platinum print, circa 1903
NPG x13811
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinotype on photographer's card mount, mid 1900s
NPG x26566
by Olive Edis
bromide print, circa 1904
NPG x19896
Related People
- Mary Edis (née Murray) (mother)
- Edwin Henry Galsworthy (husband)
- Katharine Legat (née Edis) (sister)
- Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis) (sister)
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