Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
(1856-1937), PhotographerSitter associated with 30 portraits
Artist associated with 202 portraits
Myers took up photography in 1888 to record her children. Although self-taught, her technique was influenced by contemporaries. She received technical advice from Albert George Dew Smith, a lens maker and talented amateur photographer. She also owned a number of original prints by Julia Margaret Cameron and posed her children in Cameronesque compositions. Her most accomplished works are her simply posed and naturally lit portrait heads, many of which were of the well-known contemporaries that she entertained in Cambridge and London. She also photographed her sister, the artist Dorothy Tennant, later wife of the African explorer Henry Morton Stanley.
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG P147
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 25 April 1890
NPG P54
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, circa 1890
NPG P144
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, early 1890s
NPG P142
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 25 April 1890
NPG P146
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, circa 1890
NPG P145
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, published 1900
NPG P143
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia carbon print, 1880s
NPG x19819
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia carbon print, 1880s
NPG x19820
Leopold Hamilton Myers as 'The Compassionate Cherub'
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1880s
NPG Ax68403
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1880s
NPG Ax36335
Leopold Hamilton Myers as 'The Compassionate Cherub'
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1880s
NPG Ax36332
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1880s
NPG Ax45734
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
sepia-toned platinotype print, early 1880s
NPG Ax68422
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, late 1880s
NPG Ax68377
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
albumen print, 1888
NPG Ax68568
Leopold Hamilton Myers; Silvia Constance Myers; Harold Hawthorn Myers
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG Ax68379
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1889
NPG x19812
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x4826
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
photogravure, 1889
NPG x12535
Related People
- Frederic William Henry Myers (husband)
- Harold Hawthorn Myers (son)
- Leopold Hamilton Myers (son)
- Silvia Constance Myers (daughter)
- Dorothy (née Tennant), Lady Stanley (sister)
- Charles Tennant (father)
- (Alice) Elsie Tennant (sister)
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