George Charles Beresford

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George Charles Beresford: Self-Portrait, 1934/1935
Sir William Orpen: George Charles Beresford, 1903
George Charles Beresford: Portrait of Virginia Woolf , 1902

George Charles Beresford (born July 10, 1864 in Drumlease , Dromahair , County Leitrim , Ireland , † February 21, 1938 in Brighton ) was an Irish Victorian studio photographer.

Life

Beresford was the son of Henry Marcus Beresford (1835–1895) and Julia Ellen Maunsell (? –1923) and the third of five children.

From 1877 he attended United Services College, a private school for military personnel, in the small town of Westward Ho! in Devon . After graduating from college and studying, he went to India as a civil engineer in 1882 . After four years he got malaria and returned to England to study art. His work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Between 1902 and 1932 Beresford worked in his photography studio in the Knightsbridge district of London at 20 Yeoman's Row, Brompton Road. Here he created photo portraits of famous writers, artists and politicians using the platinum printing process . His photos have been featured in publications such as The World's Work , The Sketch , The Tatler and The Illustrated London News . During the First World War he donated large sums to the Red Cross . He later traded successfully in antiques. In 1943 the National Portrait Gallery acquired some of his negatives and prints from his secretary.

Beresford was a close friend of the painters Augustus John and William Orpen - they made several portraits of each other. His school friend Rudyard Kipling formed the figure of M'Turk in Stalky & Co. (1899) after Beresford, whose autobiography Schooldays with Kipling appeared in 1936.

family

Major Henry Marcus Beresford (March 2, 1835 - February 5, 1895) and Julia Ellen Maunsell († October 13, 1923) were married on April 10, 1861. Their children were:

  • 1 Lt.-Col. Kennedy Beresford (January 25, 1862 - April 25, 1943) x Grace Des Barres - 1 Gervais De La Poer Beresford, 2 Sybil Beresford
  • 2 Marcus Francis Beresford (December 26, 1862 - December 14, 1896) x Fanny Catherine Wingfield
  • 3 George Charles Beresford (July 10, 1864 - February 21, 1938)
  • 4 Henry Lowry Lambert Beresford (November 1869 - September 25, 1932)
  • 5 Eva Emily Beresford († February 18, 1960) x Anthony Fritz Maude

Web links

Commons : George Charles Beresford  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kipling Org.
  2. ^ Rootsweb
  3. ^ The Beresford Collections
  4. ↑ Major Henry Marcus Beresford on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
  5. ^ Beresford family ( Memento from November 29, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Beresford, George Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Victorian studio photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Drumlease , Dromahair , County Leitrim , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1938
Place of death Brighton