Cavendish Morton
(1874-1939), Photographer, actor and film directorSitter associated with 15 portraits
Artist associated with 115 portraits
The actor, art director and photographer Cavendish Morton was born in New York to British parents. He took up photography in the late 1890s, photographing an actor in Lillie Langtry's production of The Degenerates. Morton had a studio at 60 Primrose Mansions, Battersea Park, London. He specialised in stage and society portraits, experimented with the autochrome process and became a leading photographer of the Edwardian period.
Helen Maud Gamble (née Isherwood)
by Cavendish Morton
pigment print on thin paper tissue, circa 1913
NPG x128817
Helen Maud Gamble (née Isherwood)
by Cavendish Morton
pigment print on thin paper tissue, circa 1913
NPG x128818
Margherita Scott-Ellis (née van Raalt), Lady Howard de Walden
by Cavendish Morton
photogravure, mid 1910s
NPG x46653
Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print on cream card, 1913
NPG x144162
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print, circa 1915
NPG x135350
Sir John Martin-Harvey in 'Broken Melody'
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print, 1916
NPG x46650
Sir John Martin-Harvey and Hilda Moore in 'Broken Melody'
by Cavendish Morton
toned bromide print on card mount, 1916
NPG x46651
by Cavendish Morton
platinum print on mount card, 1916
NPG x128845
Karen Elizabeth Lancaster (née Harris)
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print on paper mount, 1929
NPG x45655
Karen Elizabeth Lancaster (née Harris)
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print on paper mount, 1929
NPG x46645
Karen Elizabeth Lancaster (née Harris)
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print on paper mount, 1929
NPG x46644
Karen Elizabeth Lancaster (née Harris)
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print on paper mount, 1929
NPG x46647
Karen Elizabeth Lancaster (née Harris)
by Cavendish Morton
bromide print on paper mount, 1929
NPG x46646
by Cavendish Morton
woodcut, early 1900s
NPG D16544
Related People
- Concordia Merrel (Mary Phyllis Joan Morton (née Logan)) (wife)
- Cavendish Morton (son)
- Concord Morton (father)
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