Rita Martin
(1875-1958), PhotographerSitter in 7 portraits
Artist associated with 314 portraits
Margareta 'Rita' Martin started her photographic career in 1897 when she helped her elder sister Lallie Charles to run her studio. In 1906 she opened her own studio, working in a similar studio to Charles, photographing subjects in pale colours against a pure white background, and focused on actresses such as Lily Elsie and Lily Brayton and child studies, particularly of Gladys Cooper's two children. Several of her most reproduced child studies were of the Luke Children, whose father, a carpenter for Waring and Gillows, was responsible for building her second studio. Martin's and Charles' few surviving negatives were presented to the National Portrait Gallery by their niece Lallie Charles Martin in 1994.
Gladys Carrington (Gladys Winifred Tancred, née Chandler)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131492
Gladys Carrington (Gladys Winifred Tancred, née Chandler)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131493
Gladys Carrington (Gladys Winifred Tancred, née Chandler)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131494
by Rita Martin
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131495
Marion Lindsay (Marion Weldon)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131558
Marion Lindsay (Marion Weldon)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131560
Marion Lindsay (Marion Weldon)
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x131559
by Rita Martin, published by J. Beagles & Co
bromide postcard print, 1900s
NPG x196026
by Rita Martin
sepia-toned matte postcard print, 1900s
NPG x125450
by Rita Martin
sepia-toned matte postcard print, 1900s
NPG x125451
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
hand-coloured bromide postcard print, mid 1900s
NPG x131548
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, mid 1900s
NPG x131549
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin
postcard print, 1904
NPG x131450
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin, published by Aristophot Co Ltd
postcard print, 1904
NPG x131451
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1904-1908
NPG x131484
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1904-1908
NPG x131490
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin
bromide print, 1904
NPG x35637
Prince Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone
by Rita Martin, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1904-1909
NPG x197590
Lily Brayton as Katherine in 'The Taming of the Shrew'
by Rita Martin
hand-coloured postcard print, 1904
NPG x202694
Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); Katharine (née Morrison), Lady Gatty
by Rita Martin
cream-toned matte print on photographer's folder, 1906
NPG x68911
Related People
- Lallie Charles (née Charlotte Elizabeth Martin) (sister)
- Lallie Charles Cowell (née Martin) (niece)
- Kathleen Gandey (née Pow) (niece)
- Isabella Martin (sister)
- Bruce Wardlaw Pow (nephew)
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Mary Ann Prior
02 January 2021, 11:27
I have recently found a photograph by Rita Martin which is quite faded but visible. It is of Constance Villiers Stuart (1876-1966) and her baby daughter Patricia (later Stuart Nemon). It must have been taken in late 1910 because Patricia was born in September. It has Rita Martin's stamp on it and the studio address 74 Baker Street. The image is No 2910-1