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AMENDMENT - POSSIBLE self-portrait Dorothy Wilding (1893-1956) Signed photograph (possible...
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AMENDMENT - POSSIBLE self-portrait
Dorothy Wilding (1893-1956)
Signed photograph (possible self-portrait) on tissue and card mount, in silver frame by A and J Zimmerman Ltd, circa 1922
Silver frame, wood back
Signed lower left in pencil to the mount, Silver hallmarked Birmingham 1922, reverse of photograph bears paper label for 'DOROTHY WILDING CAMERA PORTRAITS / TWENTY-TWO OLD BOND STREET . LONDON . W1 / TELEPHONE 2618 REGENT', verso titled in pencil 'Pose D', inscribed in pen 'With all my love'
Photograph: 23cm x 15.5cm, Frame: 33cm x 28cm
Footnote
Similar portraits held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Dorothy Wilding began her photographic career as an apprentice to Bond Street photographer Marian Neilson. Wilding was the first woman to be appointed as the Official Royal Photographer for the 1937 Coronation and opened a second studio in New York in the same year. She took the iconic portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II featured on UK stamps. Other of her famous sitters include Tallulah Bankhead, Cecil Beaton, Noël Coward, Vivien Leigh, Joyce Grenfell and Barbara Cartland.
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