[Adolf de Meyer Photographing Olga in a Garden]

Adolf de Meyer

1900–1910 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Like many Pictorialist photographers, de Meyer became interested in the camera through collecting and making snapshots of family and close friends. Olga de Meyer (née Caracciolo) was his companion and muse until her death in 1931. Rumored to be the illegitimate daughter of the British king Edward VII, she enjoyed a privileged position within the fashionable international set surrounding the monarch. De Meyer made numerous portraits of Olga throughout their famously chic and eccentric life together (in 1916 the couple changed their names to Gayne and Mharah on the advice of an astrologer).

Artist

Adolf de Meyer

Date

1900–1910

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gift of Lunn Gallery, 1980