Vintage prints by Walter Benington for Elliott & Fry, 1920s-1930s
20 Portraits in set
The firm of Elliott and Fry, founded in 1863 was one of the most important in the history of studio portraiture in London. Opened by Joseph John Elliott (1835-1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840-1897) their first premises were a series of studios at 55 Baker Street. In 1922 new premises were opened at 63 Baker Street where they remained until 1963. The firm employed a variety of operators who took the photographs including Francis Henry Hart and Alfred James Philpott in the Edwardian era, Herbert Lambert and Walter Benington in the 1920s and 1930s and subsequently William Flowers. In the early 1940s the studio was bombed and most of the early negatives were destroyed. Shortly after the firm's Centenary in 1963 it was taken over by and amalgamated with Bassano & Vandyk.
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1920s
NPG x90114
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
chlorobromide print, late 1920s
NPG x94124
Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, late 1920s
NPG x94118
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
chlorobromide print, 1932
NPG x94125
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, mid 1930s
NPG x92045