Description: Exceptional portrait of actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr 1934 by British society portrait photographer Dorothy Wilding 1893-1976. Largely self taught Dorothy Wilding began her photographic career as an apprentice to American photographer Marian Neilson before working as a re-toucher for Richard Speight in New Bond Street, opening her first studio in 1914. She 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. Staggeringly successful she is best known for her brightly lit linear society portraits photographed in high key lighting against a white background. Demand for the ‘Wilding look’ was so great that she employed thirty-seven people. Dorothy Wilding made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain in 1930, and was honoured with a solo exhibition at the society that same year. Her surviving archives were presented to the National Portrait Gallery by her sister Mrs Susan Morton 1976 and formed the basis of a major NPG retrospective exhibition and catalogue in 1991, The Pursuit of Perfection. Dispatched in archival sleeve and hard backed envelope. Happy to combine postage.
Price: 6.5 GBP
Location: london, London
End Time: 2025-01-21T16:22:17.000Z
Shipping Cost: 10.02 GBP
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Item Specifics
Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Antique: Yes
Singles/ Sets: Single
Image Orientation: Portrait
Signed: No
Colour: Black & White
Vintage: Yes
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1934
Date of creation: 1930s
Image Colour: Black & White
Time Period Manufactured: 1925-1949
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Finish: Matte
