Frederick Hollyer
The aim of Frederick Hollyer was to teach the man in the
street the beauty of the art of the day, and to make possible the adornment of
the rooms of those who cannot afford to buy paintings with copies of the works
of the best masters of today and yesterday, as well as those of old times, and
to offer to painters, wither for their own reference or for reproduction, true
monochrome presentments of their work ~The
Photographic News, February 7, 1908.
Frederick
Hollyer was the son of Samuel Hollyer and Mary Ann Hudson born in London in 1837. He was a photographer who trained as
a reproductive engraver in mezzotint. He opened a studio in London in
1870. His platinum print reproductions were highly regarded and did much to
popularize his works in Britain and abroad. Just ask some of his
contemporaries: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederic Leighton, G.F. Watts, and Sir
Edward Burne-Jones. Alongside his work he also made a great many revealing and
intimate portraits and made landscape photographs, among them views of the
Thames, some of which were reproduced in The Studio (1893). He prided himself on his technical skills and
advocated making ‘untouched’ negatives and prints meaning images which had not
been altered by retouching at any stage during the photographic process. He
joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1865 and became a Fellow in 1895. In
1893 he became a member of the Linked Ring, a society formed to support
pictorialism in opposition to the Photographic Society. He was a member of the
Solar Club and became one of the Founder Members of the Professional
Photographers’ Association in 1901. . He retired from active work in 1913 and
died at Blewbury, Berkshire at the age of ninety-five on 21 November 1933.
May Morris
John Ruskin
William Morris
Samuel Hollyer Sr, (Frederick's father), by Frederick Hollyer. albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870s, NPG
Frederick Hollyer by Frederick Hollyer, albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s, NPG
Frederick's wife, Mary Anne Hollyer (née Armstrong) by Frederick Hollyer, albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s, NPG
The Hollyer and Armstrong families by Unknown photographer, albumen print, circa 1873, NPG
Their son, Frederick Thomas Hollyer by Frederick Hollyer, albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1875. NPG
Frederick Hollyer with his daughter, Eleanor Mary Hollyer byUnknown photographer, albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1870s and 1880s, NPG
2 comments:
Great post. I have always seen Hollyer's photographs but didn't know anything about him or what he looked like! He had adorable kids!
Hi Maggie, Thanks for commenting. I was curious to know a bit more about this famous photographer. Not much out there!
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