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Frances Doble (Lady Lindsay-Hogg)
31 of 38 portraits by Janet Jevons
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Frances Doble (Lady Lindsay-Hogg)
by Janet Jevons
cream-toned bromide print on tissue and card mount, 1930s
9 3/4 in. x 7 7/8 in. (247 mm x 199 mm)
Purchased, 1986
Photographs Collection
NPG x29910
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- Pepper, Terence, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Photographs of Dorothy Wilding, 1991 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 July 1991 - 29 September 1991), p. 14 Read entry
Such was her success that two of her staff left to set up in competition to her, working in a very similar style. One of them, Pegs Jevons, who replaced Bunny Wilson, left in 1923 to start the Janet Jevons studio with Janet Tyrell almost opposite at 20 New Bond Street.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 19-20 New Bond Street, London)
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