Ella Grainger painting in her Springfield apartment <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> silver gelatin print (annotations on negative by Percy Grainger) 15.3 x 9.6 cm According to the inscriptions on the proper right edge and bottom of the photograph, this image depicts Eva painting a copy of her portrait of Percy Grainger in her studio at the East end of her apartment. The sofa in the image is made of a sofa mattress placed on suitcases, covered by East Indian print. Inscription on the back: Springfield | MO |W377-1-12 (minus? 10). <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=The+May+Photo+Co.%2C+Springfield%2C+Missouri.+">The May Photo Co., Springfield, Missouri. </a> 25/09/1943 Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0019 Frontal Portrait of Percy Grainger <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Photo: 20.2 x 15.4 cm Photo and card: 30.2 x 22.4 cm Portrait of Percy Grainger looking straight at the camera. He is dressed in a striped suit with a shirt, tie, vest and jacket. The photograph has been printed on card embossed with the name of the photographer. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Aim%C3%A9+Dupont%2C+N.Y.">Aimé Dupont, N.Y.</a> Unknown Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0057 Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Silver gelatine print. 18.2 x 18.9 cm Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Burnett+Cross%2C+%281914%E2%80%931996%29%2C+New+York">Burnett Cross, (1914–1996), New York</a> Mid 1950s. Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0021 Herman Sandby <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Printing-out paper print. Photo: 14.4 x 9.9 cm Photo and card: 16.6 x 10.6 cm Grainger developed a close, lifelong friendship with the Danish-born cellist and composer, Herman Sandby. Joined by Sanby’s partner Alfhild de Luce as ‘extra accompanist’, the trio made a concert tour of Denmark in 1905, which included a performance at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Peter+Newland%2C+Copenhagen+">Peter Newland, Copenhagen </a> <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photogrpah">Photogrpah</a> 17.0053 Jan Kubelik <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Platinum print. Photo: 20 x 14.9 cm Paper: 35.6 x 26.3 cm Board: 64.1 x 51.1 cm Czechoslovakian-born Jan Kubelik (1880-1940) had an international reputation as a virtuosic violinist. Later in life he made Edison Phonograph recordings with Dame Nellie Melba, playing obligato to her solo performance of Ave Maria. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Henry+Walter+Barnett+%281862%E2%80%931934%29%2C+London">Henry Walter Barnett (1862–1934), London</a> 1913 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.008 Jan Kubelik <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Platinum print. Photo: 20 x 14.9 cm Paper: 35.6 x 26.3 cm Board: 64.1 x 51.1 cm Czechoslovakian-born Jan Kubelik (1880-1940) had an international reputation as a virtuosic violinist. Later in life he made Edison Phonograph recordings with Dame Nellie Melba, playing obligato to her solo performance of Ave Maria. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Henry+Walter+Barnett+%281862%E2%80%931934%29%2C+London">Henry Walter Barnett (1862–1934), London</a> 1913 Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0080 Joseph Taylor <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Silver gelatin print. Photo: 14.5 x 9.7 cm Photo and board: 30.2 x 24.7 cm Joseph Taylor of Saxby-All-Saints, North Lincolnshire, was a bailiff on a large estate in the latter part of his life. He was also a traditional folksinger. In the year this photograph was taken he recorded nine of his songs with the Gramophone Company. Percy Grainger befriended him and set Taylor’s version of the traditional song, Rufford Park Poachers, in his Lincolnshire Posey suite. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Frank+J.+Hill%2C+London">Frank J. Hill, London</a> 1908 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0016 Karen Holten <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Sepia toned black and white photograph. 11.2 x 12.1 cm Danish-born pianist, Karen Holten (1879–1953), was Grainger’s lover for eight years during the time he lived in London. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown">Unknown</a> Unknown <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0010 Knife and hot key scars 1902 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> Digital print from scanned photograph. Photograph of imprints made in the flesh by Knife and hot keys, 1902 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unknown">Unknown</a> 1902 Photograph <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0086 Margot Harrison <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=photograph">photograph</a> Platinum print Photo: 20.5 x 15.3 cm Photo and frame: 34.2 x 26.2 cm In 1913 Grainger's then fiancée Margot Harrison ordered a very expensive present for her lover: a portrait of herself by H Walter Barnett. Despite his humble beginnings in the studio of Stewart & Co in Melbourne, with his brilliant business mind and extraordinarily gifted photographic eye, Barnett became one of the most sought-after society portraitists in Melbourne, New York and London. Jack Cato (who worked for Barnett) records in his book, The Story of the Camera in Australia (1955), that in 1909 a single portrait sitting with Barnett cost £37. <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Henry+Walter+Barnett+%281862%E2%80%931934%29%2C+London.">Henry Walter Barnett (1862–1934), London.</a> 1/11/1913 <a href="/grainger/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Photograph">Photograph</a> 17.0026