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| Eveleen Tennant William Ewart Gladstone 1890 platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
Eveleen Tennant Myers (1856-1937) took up photography in the 1880s. She later explained her own immediate motive as a desire to record her children's quickly passing stages of growth. Yet her ambitions certainly exceeded this stated purpose. She owned prints by Julia Margaret Cameron and modeled much of her work on that of the pioneering English photographer, whose activity had ended in the early 1870s. Tennant adopted a more refined version of Cameron's trademark goose-wings (below), and more generally reproduced the earlier artist's preferred subjects and poses, including – 1) meditative portraits of of her own intimates, and 2) studies of those she encountered (like Prime Minister Gladstone, above) as a society hostess. A large collection of this work is preserved at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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| Eveleen Tennant Leopold Hamilton Myers as the Compassionate Cherub 1880s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Mary Endicott Carnegie 1890s platinum National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Eleanor Butcher early 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Renée Tennant 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Effie Stillman 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Leopold Hamilton Myers with Guinea Pig late 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Sylvia Constance Myers 1880s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Leopold Hamilton Myers, Silvia Constance Myers & Eveleen Tennant Myers ca. 1890 platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Silvia Constance Myers & Eveleen Tennant Myers ca. 1900 platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Adelaide Passingham early 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Miss Judd 1890s platinum print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |
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| Eveleen Tennant Sir Henry Irving ca. 1900 silver gelatin print National Portrait Gallery (U.K.) |