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.
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x14373
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print, circa 1910
NPG x15085
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned matte print on photographer's card mount, 1910-1915
NPG x15407
by Olive Edis
bromide print, circa 1910
NPG x15435
Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x15466
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x15492
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x15494
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x15496
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1910s
NPG x15498
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x15509
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x15510
by Olive Edis
platinum print, circa 1910
NPG x15537
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, circa 1910
NPG x15538
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x15560
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x16094
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x16097
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x16098
Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, circa 1910
NPG x16114
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x16343
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x17318
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x17319
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x22569
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x5198
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x5199
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x6031
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x7959
by Olive Edis, and Katharine Legat (née Edis)
platinum print on photographer's card mount, August 1910
NPG x87576
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x15431
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1910s
NPG x21997
by Olive Edis
matte bromide postcard print, 1910s
NPG x198190
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1910s
NPG x15436
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1912
NPG x7209
Mrs Packard as the Victorian widow in 'Sweet Ann Page'
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1912
NPG x15513
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45535
by Olive Edis, or Katharine Legat (née Edis)
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45534
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45517
by Olive Edis
autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45501
Katharine Legat (née Edis); Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis)
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x38475
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1913
NPG x137570
Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis)
by Olive Edis
half-plate autochrome, mid 1910s
NPG x45540
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Gilbert Talbot
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1914
NPG x186
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype, 1914
NPG x13494
by Olive Edis
bromide print, 1914
NPG x17363
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury and his grandchildren
by Olive Edis
toned bromide print on card mount, 1914
NPG x131721
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7175
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7186
Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7187
Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7188
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7202
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7203
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7204
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7211
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x8003
(Susan Elizabeth) Mary Jeune (née Stewart-Mackenzie), Lady St Helier
by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
NPG x7205
by Olive Edis
half-plate autochrome, 1914-1919
NPG x75733
by Olive Edis
bromide print on card mount, February 1914
NPG x12446
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1914
NPG x12985
by Olive Edis
platinotype on photographer's card mount, 1914
NPG x16126
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Olive Edis
platinum print, 1914
NPG x182
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Olive Edis
platinum print on photographer's card mount, 1914
NPG x184
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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