Miss Compton Collier
(1899-1977), PhotographerArtist associated with 18 portraits
Miss Compton Collier began taking photographs while at school. She lived in Hampstead, London, and for over fifty years she spent the summer months touring the English countryside photographing her subjects. They were mostly aristocratic families, alongside the occasional actor or actress. Each spring she would send to people of high rank an itinerary of her summer tour stating that she would be in the neighbourhood during a certain week in case she were needed for an at-home sitting. Examples of her work were published in almost every copy of the Tatler and Sketch magazines during the 1910s and 1920s.
Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger and Baba d'Erlanger, Princesse Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge
by Miss Compton Collier
gelatin silver print, published 18 October 1916
NPG Ax105728
probably by Miss Compton Collier
gelatin silver print, 1916
NPG Ax105729
by Miss Compton Collier
gelatin silver print, 1916
NPG Ax105732
by Miss Compton Collier
gelatin silver print, published 18 October 1916
NPG Ax105733
by Miss Compton Collier
cream-toned bromide print on brown folder, circa 1917
NPG x68996
unknown woman; Lallie Charles; Ida Adams
by Miss Compton Collier
cream-toned bromide print on brown folder, circa 1917
NPG x68994
unknown woman; Ida Adams; Lallie Charles
by Miss Compton Collier
cream-toned bromide print on brown folder, circa 1917
NPG x68995
Group including Sir Charles Blake Cochran, Raymond Hitchcock, Lallie Charles and Herbert Carr
by Miss Compton Collier
cream-toned bromide print on brown folder, circa 1917
NPG x68997
Group including Lallie Charles, Herbert Carr, Raymond Hitchcock and Sir Charles Blake Cochran
by Miss Compton Collier
cream-toned bromide print on brown folder, circa 1917
NPG x68998
George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
by Miss Compton Collier
bromide print on card mount, 1920s
NPG x182257
George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
by Miss Compton Collier
bromide print on card mount, early-1920s
NPG x182258
Faith Celli (Dorothy Faith Standing)
by Miss Compton Collier
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 20 July 1921
NPG x136695
Violet Loraine; John Joicey; Edward Raylton Joicey; Richard Raylton Joicey
by Miss Compton Collier
bromide print, 1928
NPG x26409
by Miss Compton Collier
vintage bromide print, July 1955
NPG x40459
by Miss Compton Collier
vintage bromide print, July 1955
NPG x40460
by Miss Compton Collier
vintage bromide print, July 1955
NPG x40461
by Miss Compton Collier
vintage bromide print, July 1955
NPG x40462
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Terence Pepper
10 January 2019, 01:06
Miss Compton Collier birthdate was 24 January 1899 and death date 27 June 1977..
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