Walter Benington
(1872-1936), PhotographerArtist associated with 67 portraits
Walter Benington started his photographic career while still at school. The snapping of groups and friends soon palled, and he took up platinotype printing and pictorial landscape work. His first real success was a picture entitled Among the Housetops, which was exhibited in 1893, and this was responsible for him being invited to join the Linked Ring, in whose annual shows he was regularly represented. In 1927 Benington began working for the photographic studio Elliott & Fry as a freelance portrait photographer.
by Walter Benington
vintage chlorobromide print, 1918
NPG x128743
possibly by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x89674
Margaret Ethel ('Storm') Jameson
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
vintage print, 1920s
NPG x89974
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1920s
NPG x90114
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton; Lydia Lopokova
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x90117
by Walter Benington, copy by Elliott & Fry
vintage copy print, 1920s
NPG x91836
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1920s
NPG x94126
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1920s
NPG x94123
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, circa 1926
NPG x19659
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, circa 1926
NPG x27214
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
photogravure, circa 1926
NPG x27215
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, before 1926
NPG x82130
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1942 (published 1927)
NPG x86782
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, published 1927
NPG x86827
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, published 1927
NPG x91229
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, late 1920s
NPG x94124
Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, late 1920s
NPG x94118
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1943 (published 1927)
NPG x86261
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
vintage copy print, 1928
NPG x91216
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
vintage print, 18 May 1928
NPG x82213
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