Frederick Hollyer
(1838-1933), Photographer and art publisherSitter associated with 6 portraits
Artist associated with 111 portraits
Hollyer took up photography in about 1860, and established a business in the photographic reproduction of works of art, notably the paintings of the pre-Raphaelites and the drawings of Burne-Jones. As a relaxation he photographed people, and at his studio on Pembroke Square, London, Mondays were reserved for portraiture. His portrait prints, with their limited range of tone and distinctive mounts, have a rare delicacy and beauty. His sitters are unselfconsciously posed and softly lit, their characters revealed with great sympathy and understanding. Hollyer was a member of the Photographic Society and the Linked Ring brotherhood.
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x13045
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x13046
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x13047
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x13048
Sir Arthur Strachey; Jack Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x38567
by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print on photographer's mount, 1890s
NPG x129645
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, circa 1890
NPG x16968
by Barbara Sotheby (née Leighton), printed by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print, 27 July 1890
NPG x13185
Sir Edward Burne-Jones; William Morris
by Sir Emery Walker, after Frederick Hollyer
half-plate glass positive, (27 July 1890)
NPG x19619
Eleanor Louisa Moravia Sickert (née Henry)
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
NPG x22577
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print, 1890s
NPG Ax160912
by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print on card mount, 1893
NPG x19020
by Frederick Hollyer
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 14 November 1894
NPG x137823
by Frederick Hollyer, published by Walter L. Colls
photogravure, September 1894
NPG x138999
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, 1895 or before
NPG x12457
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe as Philip II of Spain
by Frederick Hollyer, photogravure by Walker & Boutall
photogravure, 1897; published 1899
NPG Ax41216
by Frederick Hollyer
bromide print on card mount, 1900s
NPG x198235
by Frederick Hollyer
albumen carte-de-visite
NPG Ax17149
by Frederick Hollyer, after John Collier
photogravure, (1879)
NPG D39227
by Robert Bryden, after Frederick Hollyer
woodcut, circa 1899 (1884)
NPG D32473
by Frederick Hollyer, after Sir William Blake Richmond
photograph, before 1929 (1884)
NPG D9819
by Frederick Hollyer, after George Frederic Watts
photograph, 18 February 1890
NPG D41699
by Frederick Hollyer, after Alice Grant
photograph, (1898)
NPG D42025
by Frederick Hollyer, after Sir William Blake Richmond
photographic print, 1907
NPG D36588
by Frederick Hollyer
platinotype cabinet card, circa 1880
NPG x26142
Silvia Constance Myers; Leopold Hamilton Myers
by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print, 1885
NPG Ax68359
Silvia Constance Myers; Leopold Hamilton Myers
by Frederick Hollyer
platinum print, 1885
NPG Ax68360
Related People
- Christopher Charles Hollyer (brother)
- Eleanor Mary Hollyer (daughter)
- Frederick Thomas Hollyer (son)
- Mary Anne Hollyer (née Armstrong) (wife)
- Samuel Hollyer Sr (father)
- Samuel Hollyer Jr (brother)
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