Today is the birthday of Helen Muspratt, a very fine portrait photographer. In 1932 she joined with Lettice Ramsey to operate a portrait studio in Cambridge. There are 60 portraits by Ramsey and Muspratt in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Guy Burgess by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1930s
Quentin Bell by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1932
Alistair Cooke by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1932
Roger Fry by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1932. Wonderful shadows in this photograph.
Marghanita Laski by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1930s. Laski was such an interesting person; she contributed 250,000 quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Virginia Woolf and Angelica Garnett by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1932
Paul Dirac by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1934
Dorothy Hodgkin by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, circa 1937. Another fine portrait of an English Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Robert Graves by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1950s?
Paul Nash by Helen Muspratt, for Ramsey & Muspratt, vintage copy print, 1932
G. E. Moore by Ramsey & Muspratt, bromide print, 1936
Tess Mayor, later Lady Rothschild, by Ramsey & Muspratt, 1933. An impressive example of solarization, a technique often used in portraits by Man Ray and Lee Miller.
