Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Alan Turing on his birthday 🎂
Photo: Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 29 March 1951
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This portrait is featured on the new UK £50 note

The firm of Elliott & Fry was founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott & Clarence Edmund Fry, who opened their first premises at 55 Baker Street. The @NPGLondon has over 10,000 negatives in their collection. Here are some of my favourites.
Christina Rossetti, 1880s

"Cabinet cards" from Elliott & Fry, London's great photography studio
John Ruskin, 1867
Kate Greenaway, 1870s

More cabinet cards from Elliott & Fry, London's great photography studio
William Morris, 1877
Lily Langtree, 1880s. That waist!

More cabinet cards from Elliott & Fry, London's great photography studio
Charles Darwin, November 8, 1881
George Frederic Watts, 1890s. Looking very much the Old Master.

Lots of the Elliott & Fry portraits are dull shots of dull politicians & aristocrats. But a few have real personality; this one certainly does!
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, March 1935
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Another fine portrait of a great musician:
Franz Liszt by Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1880
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... along with his buddy (& son-in-law), Richard Wagner.
This shot has a proper photographer credit:
Chevalier Luigi Bernieri, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1881
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Elliott & Fry's studio was at 55 Baker Street, & with Sherlock Holmes just down the street at no. 221b, I wondered if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had his portrait taken there. Sure enough, he did, around 1895.
(BTW, Baker Street only went up to no. 85 until 1930).

However, it looks like Sir John Everett Millais, a notorious bully, knocked down Sherlock Holmes & stole his hat on the way to his portrait session.
This photograph is by Alfred James Philpott, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1894
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