SHAW (George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)

Superb unsigned portrait photo by Olive EDIS, (later Edis-Galsworthy, 1876-1955) signed in pencil on the mount by the photographer, showing him half length seated at his desk which is covered with papers, he is looking round and holding his glasses up, 15" x 11½" in frame 19" x 15½", no place, no date

Edis was a British photographer who was famous for autochrome phototographs and portrait photography. She served as a war artist in World War I. She was a daughter of Arthur Wellesley Edis, Professor of Gynaecology at the University College Hospital. In 1903 she and her sister Katherine opened a studio in Sheringham, Norfolk where they specialised in portraits of local fisherman and members of the local gentry. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove. She worked with platinum prints and from 1912 she pioneered colour autochrome photography. Her sitters included George Bernard Shaw, Emmeline Pankhurst and the Duke of York.

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Stock No:  38672      £375

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