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Eveleen Tennant Myers (21 November 1856 – 12 March 1937) was an English photographer.
Tennant was the third daughter of
ISBN 978-1-7367899-1-9 .
Eveleen Myers 1856-1937
{{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Eveleen 1856 births 1937 deaths British portrait photographers English women photographers 19th-century English photographers People from Bloomsbury Photographers from London 19th-century British women photographers 19th-century English women artists
Biography
Tennant was the third daughter of Charles Tennant
Charles Tennant (3 May 1768 – 1 October 1838) was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered Calcium hypochlorite, bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
Biography
Charles Tennant was born at Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrs ...
(1796–1873) and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the artist, Dorothy Tennant. She married the classicist, poet, and psychical researcher Frederic William Henry Myers
Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" we ...
(1843–1901) in 1880. They had two sons, the elder the novelist Leopold Hamilton Myers
Leopold Hamilton Myers (6 September 1881 – 7 April 1944) was a British novelist.
Life
left, with his mother
Myers was born in Leckhampton House, Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 ...
(1881–1944), and a daughter, the author Silvia Myers Blennerhassett.
Tennant posed for the Pre-Raphaelite painters George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolism (arts), Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as ''Hope (Watts), Hop ...
and John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest s ...
.
Myers took up photography in 1888, taking pictures of her family and visitors. She was self-taught. She later gave up her practice after the death of her husband in 1901, dedicating her time to publishing Frederic W.H. Myers' writing.
Collections
TheNational Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world th ...
holds 203 of her photographic portraits, as well as 30 portraits with Myers née Tennant as the subject.
Tate
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK ...
in London holds portrait paintings by Watts and by Millais of Myers.
References
Further reading
* * * * Laurie, Kedrun (2021). "Evy: George Frederic Watts's portrait of Eveleen Tennant". Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum.External links
Eveleen Myers 1856-1937
{{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Eveleen 1856 births 1937 deaths British portrait photographers English women photographers 19th-century English photographers People from Bloomsbury Photographers from London 19th-century British women photographers 19th-century English women artists