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Hay Wrightson

(1874-1949), Photographer

Artist associated with 357 portraits

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Jerome Klapka Jerome, by Hay Wrightson - NPG x11843

Jerome Klapka Jerome

by Hay Wrightson
platinum print on card mount, 1920s
NPG x11843

Ruby Miller, by Hay Wrightson - NPG Ax160135

Ruby Miller

by Hay Wrightson
matte bromide postcard print, 1920s
NPG Ax160135

Ramsay MacDonald, by Hay Wrightson, published by  James Dawson Yeadon - NPG x197822

Ramsay MacDonald

by Hay Wrightson, published by James Dawson Yeadon
bromide postcard print, circa 1920s
NPG x197822

Cecil Beaton, by Hay Wrightson - NPG x30313

Cecil Beaton

by Hay Wrightson
sepia-toned bromide print on card and tissue mount, 1920s
NPG x30313

'Souvenir of the Royal Wedding', published by Marlborough Printing Co, after  Elliott & Fry, and after  Speaight Ltd, and after  Frank Arthur Swaine, and after  Hay Wrightson, and after  Maull & Fox, and after  E.O. Hoppé - NPG x193256

'Souvenir of the Royal Wedding'

published by Marlborough Printing Co, after Elliott & Fry, and after Speaight Ltd, and after Frank Arthur Swaine, and after Hay Wrightson, and after Maull & Fox, and after E.O. Hoppé
bromide postcard print, 1923
NPG x193256

Queen Mary, by Hay Wrightson, published by  Raphael Tuck & Sons - NPG x19945

Queen Mary

by Hay Wrightson, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, 1930s
NPG x19945

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Ray klees

06 January 2017, 13:20

My father was an American bomber pilot, based at Snetterton-Heath, south of Norwich. He went to London on leave occasionally. He sat for portraits at the Studio of Hay Wrightson. Wrightson took a liking to my father and wrote, by hand, a beautiful letter to my grandmother (about whom my father spoke to Wrightson about) telling her that my father seemed burdened and worried in his first sitting. He could not find a smile for any portrait. But on his 3nd visit, Wrightson was pleased to find the subject more relieved and better-spirited. Wrightson was most pleased by that. It is a beautiful letter we have cherished since 1944. I tried to return it to the address on the stationery... Bond Street, I believe, but of course, proprietary had changed. We still have this touching and personal communique that my grandmother always saved and read often.