Vivienne
(1889-1982), Photographer, miniaturist, singerVivienne (Florence Vivienne Entwistle, née Mellish)
Sitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 214 portraits
Florence Vivienne Mellish first trained and performed as a singer. On marriage to Ernest Entwistle, an artist, she took up a successful career as a miniaturist. She began her photographic career in 1934 assisting her husband and son, Antony Beauchamp. When the latter left to set up his own studio, she adopted the name Vivienne and opened her own studio photographing inter alia five successive prime ministers. Other portraits are collected in her autobiography They Came to My Studio (1956).
(Gladys) Mary Wilson (née Baldwin), Lady Wilson of Rievaulx
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1960s
NPG x88041
Sheet music cover for 'I Only Want To Be With You' by Dusty Springfield
published by Springfield Music Ltd., after Vivienne
halftone reproduction, published 1963
NPG D48559
Sheet music cover for 'Losing You' by Dusty Springfield
published by Springfield Music Ltd., after Vivienne
halftone reproduction, published 1964
NPG D48561
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, 1940s
NPG x6050
by Vivienne
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 25 February 1953
NPG x136627
Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon; Clarissa Eden (née Spencer-Churchill), Countess of Avon
by Vivienne
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 3 November 1954
NPG x193407
(Dorothy) Thelma Helen Holland (née Besant)
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, circa 1955
NPG x76413
(Dorothy) Thelma Helen Holland (née Besant)
by Vivienne
vintage bromide print, circa 1955
NPG x76414
(Dorothy) Thelma Helen Holland (née Besant)
by Vivienne
chlorobromide print, circa 1960
NPG x76415
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