Christina Broom
(1862-1939), PhotographerMrs Albert Broom (Christina Livingston)
Sitter in 4 portraits
Artist associated with 94 portraits
Britain's first woman press freelance photographer, Livingston photographed many Suffragette marches and the movement's key personalities. Educated at Claremont, Margate, she took her first photographs in 1903, becoming official photographer to HM Household Brigade, 1904-39. For thirty years she photographed the teams and action of the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race. A selection of her best work was shown in the NPG`s 1994 exhibition Edwardian Women Photographers. As well as the NPG's collection of her vintage prints and original negatives, other work can be found in the Museum of London, Imperial War Museum, Chelsea Library, and the Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas.
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative, before 1936
NPG x215
King Manuel II of Portugal; Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
by Christina Broom
half-plate glass negative
NPG x165
Lena Ashwell (née Lena Margaret Pocock, later Lady Simson)
by Christina Broom
bromide print, 1900-1925
NPG x121
Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone
by Christina Broom
bromide print, 1900-1925
NPG x122
Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans with the survivors of HMS Broke
by Christina Broom
bromide print, 1917
NPG x76703
David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
by Christina Broom
bromide print, circa 1918
NPG x675
Mary Theresa Olivia ('Daisy') (née Cornwallis-West), Princess of Pless
by Christina Broom
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x134177
Related People
- Albert Edward Broom (husband)
- Winifred Margaret Broom (daughter)
- Margaret Livingston (sister)
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