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.
Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (née Charteris)
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930s
NPG x90235
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, circa 1930
NPG x90645
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930s
NPG x90654
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930s
NPG x90711
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on tissue, 1930s
NPG x91145
Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on tissue, 1930s
NPG x92072
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, circa 1930
NPG x94127
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, early 1930
NPG x94122
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930
NPG x94120
George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne)
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930s
NPG x94119
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1931-1932
NPG x91246
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1931-1932
NPG x94121
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, February 1932
NPG x91858
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 19 February 1932
NPG x94117
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1932
NPG x94125
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, mid 1930s
NPG x92045
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
after Walter Benington
colour offset lithographic cigarette card, 1937
NPG D42414
Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriot
by Walter Benington, copy for Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x90514
by Walter Benington, copy by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, 1920s
NPG x21175
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate copy glass negative, 1943 (published 1927)
NPG x82009
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