Olive Edis

Portrait photographer and pioneer in use of colour autochromes; (Mary) Olive Edis took up photography in 1900, opening a portrait photography studio in Sherringham, Norfolk, in 1903 with her sister Katherine; as well as portraits of the famous she worked with early autochromes; elected Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1914; worked as war artist for the Imperial War Museum, 1918-1919; created advertising images for Canadian Pacific Railway in 1920s; married Edwin Henry Galsworthy (cousin of author John Galsworthy) in 1928.