Eveleen Myers

Eveleen Tennant Myers (21 November 1856 – 12 March 1937) was an English photographer.^[1]

Biography

Tennant was the third daughter of Charles Tennant (1796–1873) and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the artist, Dorothy Tennant.^[2] She married the classicist, poet, and psychical researcher Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) in 1880. They had two sons, the elder the novelist Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881–1944), and a daughter, the author Silvia Myers Blennerhassett.

Tennant posed for the Pre-Raphaelite painters George Frederic Watts and John Everett Millais.^[3]

Myers took up photography in 1888, taking pictures of her family and visitors. She was self-taught.^[2] She later gave up her practice after the death of her husband in 1901, dedicating her time to publishing Frederic W.H. Myers' writing.^[4]

Collections

The National Portrait Gallery, London holds 203 of her photographic portraits, as well as 30 portraits with Myers née Tennant as the subject.^[2] Tate in London holds portrait paintings by Watts^[5] and by Millais^[6] of Myers.

References

Further reading

• Hamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian search for life after death. Imprint Academic. ISBN 978-1-8454-0248-8.
• Gauld, Alan (2004). "Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843–1901)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35177. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Waller, David (2004). "Tennant, Gertrude Barbara Rich (1819–1918)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55520. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Laurie, Kedrun (2021). "Evy: George Frederic Watts's portrait of Eveleen Tennant". Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum. ISBN 978-1-7367899-1-9.

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