Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
(1856-1937), PhotographerSitter associated with 30 portraits
Artist associated with 203 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 Unknown photographer
hand-coloured albumen print, early 1870s
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) as Esmeralda in 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1874
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) as Jessica in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1874
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) as Jessica with Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on card mount, 1874
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) as Vanessa
after a drawing by Frank Miles
platinum print, 1876
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by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
albumen print, 1880s
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, 1881
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant); Leopold Hamilton Myers at Brandon House, Cheltenham
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1882
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
albumen print, circa 1883
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
albumen print, circa 1883
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
albumen print, circa 1883
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn
albumen cabinet card, circa 1883
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by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1884
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; Silvia Constance Myers; Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, circa 1890
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probably by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print on grey card mount, 1890s
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probably by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print on card mount, 1890s
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possibly by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print on card mount, 1890s
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probably by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890s
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probably by Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea
platinum print, early 1890s
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Eveleen Myers (née Tennant); Silvia Constance Myers; Harold Hawthorn Myers; Leopold Hamilton Myers
probably by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, mid 1890s
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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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