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Platinum print, hand-made paper.

Photo: 19.7 x 13.9 cm
Photo and paper: 37.8 x 26.2 cm

Helen Lohmann studied the violin but after a hand injury, turned to photography. The legendary Italian actress Eleanora Duse mentored Lohmann, and the…

Photogravure.

Photo: 19.8 x 10.9 cm
Photo and card: 34.8 x 26.8 cm

Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a much-adored star of the Italian stage who also enjoyed international acclaim. She is remembered for her roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen and…

Toned silver gelatin print.

Photo: 24.1 x 19.0 cm
Photo and frame: 30.3 x 24.3 cm

Grainger spent a lot of his life away from home touring as a concert pianist. While his mother was alive he developed a pattern of having photographs of himself…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm
Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm
Note: 19.0 x 21 cm

Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 24.1 x 18.4 cm
Photo and larger card: 45.8 x 35.4 cm

It appears Grainger liked this image very much, as the collection contains multiple copies signed by the photographer. Arnold Genthe was a celebrity photographer…

Silver gelatin print. 35.2 x 27.2 cm Swedish artist, poet and amateur musician Ella Viola Ström (1889-1979) married Grainger in 1928. Here she is depicted on her veranda in White Plains, New York, in a photograph taken by her neighbour, the…

Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide.

Photo: 23.7 x 18.5 cm
Photo and board: 30.5 x 25.3 cm

The unknown photographer of this image has captured Roger Quilter with a stony-faced visage, a visual contradiction to various written descriptions…

Silver gelatin prints and mechanically printed postcard.

13.5 x 8.3 cm

Aimé Dupont was a fashionable New York studio where Grainger sat for a number of portraits sometime before November 1915. He had already made his debut to New York audiences…

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…

Platinum prints.

Photo: 14.1 x 9.7 cm
Photo and board: 28 x 20.6 cm
Envelope: 35.6 x 22.8 cm

These portraits were taken in the same sitting at Elliot and Fry studio in London, and demonstrate how a change in lighting and camera angle can…