Walter Stoneman
(1876-1958), PhotographerSitter in 8 portraits
Artist associated with 18527 portraits
From the age of twenty-one Stoneman worked as a photographer for the large established firm of J. Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London. He worked his way up, photographing society figures. By 1913, he had risen to the position of Managing Director. In 1917 he approached the Director of the National Portrait Gallery, James Milner, with an ambitious idea for a National Photographic Record. The Record was set up to photograph every eminent British person, with a photograph of each to be kept as a permanent record in the Gallery's reference collection. Stoneman photographed some 7,000 sitters on the Gallery's behalf; he worked on the Record for forty-one years, adding 100-200 portraits each year.
John Gilbert Simon, 2nd Viscount Simon
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1955
NPG x185290
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1955
NPG x185523
(Frank) Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1955
NPG x186606
Sir Christopher Norman Musgrave, 6th Bt
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1955
NPG x186793
Richard Frederick Wood, Baron Holderness of Bishop Wilton
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1956
NPG x186260
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, September 1957
NPG x185111
John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, April 1957
NPG x186251
Dame Vera Elvira Sibyl Maria Laughton Mathews
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1958
NPG x186549
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