Walter Stoneman
(1876-1958), PhotographerSitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 18527 portraits
From the age of twenty-one Stoneman worked as a photographer for the large established firm of J. Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London. He worked his way up, photographing society figures. By 1913, he had risen to the position of Managing Director. In 1917 he approached the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, James Milner, with an ambitious idea for a National Photographic Record. The Record was set up to photograph every eminent British person, with a photograph of each to be kept as a permanent record in the Gallery's reference collection. Stoneman photographed some 7,000 sitters on the Gallery's behalf; he worked on the Record for forty-one years, adding 100-200 portraits each year.
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, circa 1890
NPG x34168
by Unknown photographer, copied by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass copy negative, copied April 1948 (1890s)
NPG x188193
Royal group including Queen Victoria and Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, copied January 1948 (April 1894)
NPG x189248
by Unknown photographer, copied by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, circa 1900
NPG x32178
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
platinum print, 1900s
NPG Ax39133
by Unknown photographer, copied by Walter Stoneman
half-plate copy glass negative, circa 1907
NPG x32182
Probably Diana Churchill; Clementine (née Hozier), Baroness Spencer-Churchill
copy by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, August 1949 (circa 1909)
NPG x190220
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x163982
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x165654
Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Bt
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x166180
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, 1910s
NPG Ax39229
possibly by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x168584
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, circa 1910s
NPG x169894
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x185822
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1912
NPG Ax39041
Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
hand-coloured bromide print, published 1914
NPG x137451
Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1914
NPG Ax39028
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1915
NPG x165357
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1915
NPG x31062
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, circa 1915
NPG x159915
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