Olive Edis
(1876-1955), Photographer(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 18 portraits
Artist associated with 428 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.
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by Sarah Jane Dugdale (née Hartland)
half-plate autochrome, early 1900s
NPG x38479
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x7959
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45535
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45534
by Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45530
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
duratrans, mid 1910s; printed 2018
NPG x45535MP
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print on photographer's card, 1918
NPG x7960
Olive Edis; Mary Edis (née Murray)
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45514
Olive Edis; Mary Edis (née Murray)
by Olive Edis
autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x45515
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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