Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870-1958) specialized in society and celebrity studio portraits, which were often printed as real photo postcards. She was associated with the Women’s Suffrage movement and photographed many suffragettes including Flora Drummond, Millicent Fawcett and Christabel Pankhurst. She also photographed prominent stage actors, including Henry Ainley, Camille Clifford, Sydney Valentine, Billie Burke and Maude Fealy.
Caswall Smith operated the Gainsborough Studio at 309 Oxford Street from 1907 to 1920, when she moved to 90 Great Russell Street, where she stayed until her retirement in 1930. She exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society in 1902 and 1913 and her sepia-toned platinotype copies of photographs of Peter Llewelyn Davies and J.M. Barrie are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Caswall Smith operated the Gainsborough Studio at 309 Oxford Street from 1907 to 1920, when she moved to 90 Great Russell Street, where she stayed until her retirement in 1930. She exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society in 1902 and 1913 and her sepia-toned platinotype copies of photographs of Peter Llewelyn Davies and J.M. Barrie are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Photographs by Lizzie Caswall Smith
Miss Maggie May, rotary post card. Photograph by Lizzie Caswall Smith
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Lizzie Caswall Smith, published photograph in The Sketch
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