Olive Edis
(1876-1955), Photographer(Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
Sitter in 17 portraits
Artist associated with 425 portraits
Olive Edis opened her first studio with her sister Katherine in early the 1900s in Sheringham, Norfolk specialising in fisherman and local nobilities. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with sepia platinotypes and pioneered colour autochrome portraits from 1912 onwards. Her sitters included Shaw, Hardy, Balfour, and Mrs Pankhurst. Olive Edis patented her own autochrome viewer. She photographed British Women's services and the battlefields of France and Flanders 1918-19 for the Imperial War Museum. She married Edwin Henry Galsworthy, a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy, 1928.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, 1914
NPG x185
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's mount, 1914
NPG x187
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1914
NPG x5209
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1914
NPG x5210
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1915
NPG x7182
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print, circa 1915
NPG x16385
by Olive Edis
platinum print, circa 1915
NPG x16386
by Olive Edis
platinum print, circa 1915
NPG x16387
by Olive Edis
colour print on photographer's card mount, 1915-1920
NPG x972
Augustine Birrell; Clement King Shorter
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print, 1916
NPG x12402
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x16096
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x12475
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x12476
Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x15083
Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x15084
Dame Margaret Lloyd George (née Owen)
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x15463
Dame Margaret Lloyd George (née Owen)
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1917
NPG x15464
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1917
NPG x16087
Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print, 1917
NPG x19978
Philip Coutts, 7th Baron Antrobus
by Olive Edis
platinum print, late 1910s
NPG x76429
Victoria Eugenie ('Ena') of Battenberg, Queen of Spain
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1918
NPG x16093
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, circa 1918
NPG x15430
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, December 1918
NPG x15456
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1919
NPG x7181
Princess Beatrice of Battenberg
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1919
NPG x16352
Princess Beatrice of Battenberg
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, January 1919
NPG x16353
Princess Beatrice of Battenberg
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, January 1919
NPG x16354
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1920
NPG x15506
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7184
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7180
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7179
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7177
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920
NPG x7183
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920
NPG x7185
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7195
George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920
NPG x7198
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920
NPG x7199
Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920
NPG x8004
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1920-1930
NPG x7210
Related People
- Mary Edis (née Murray) (mother)
- Edwin Henry Galsworthy (husband)
- Katharine Legat (née Edis) (sister)
- Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis) (sister)
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