Background
Malcolm Arbuthnot (born Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parsons) was born in 1877 in London, United Kingdom.
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(View of a barge in the Thames, London with St Paul's Cath...)
View of a barge in the Thames, London with St Paul's Cathedral in the background.
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(English Actress, Early 20th Century)
English Actress, Early 20th Century
Malcolm Arbuthnot (born Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parsons) was born in 1877 in London, United Kingdom.
Malcolm Arbuthnot was apprenticed to painter C.A. Brindley in Suffolk, England, and later studied painting under William Nicholson.
In 1907, Malcolm Arbuthnot joined the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, an organisation founded in 1892 by Alfred Maskell and others dissatisfied with the ethos of the Royal Photographic Society exhibitions, with the aim to promote naturalistic and aesthetic photography as an independent art.
From 1914, Arbuthnot ran a portrait studio in London's New Bond Street, in the early 20th century photographing many celebrities including the actress Lillah McCarthy, the pianist Harriet Cohen and the poet Robert Nichols. His studio, along with many of his works, was destroyed in a fire.
Also in 1914, he was one of the signatories - the only photographer - to the manifesto of the Vorticism movement published in the first issue of the literary magazine BLAST.
After World War I, he gave up photography in favour of painting, working in oils, watercolours and gouaches.
Malcolm Arbuthnot perfected a commercially successful gum process and marketed the Lentopigment paper in the early 1900s. Called "the most advanced of the modems" in a 1909 Amateur Photographer, Arbuthnot's early interest in the pigment processes led him to create some remarkable gum and oil prints.
View of a barge in the Thames, London with St Paul's Cathedral in the background.
(View of a barge in the Thames, London with St Paul's Cath...)
1908Photograph of a landscape with the meander of a river, in a pictorialist style.
1908Old photograph, taken from the bridge of a sailing ship, heeling considerably.
1908Gladys Cooper
(English Actress, Early 20th Century)
La Laveuse
1909beautiful Lady
1920Gum platinum
Unknown man
Photograph
Doris Keane
Polaire dans Agathe à Petograd
1915Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
Jacob Epstein
1930Clara Evelyn
Harriet Cohen
1920
Malcolm Arbuthnot married twice, and had numerous adopted children. His first marriage to Florence Emily Goold ("Daisy") ended in divorce following her adultery with the poet John Gould Fletcher, whom she later married. (The settlement from Fletcher for her upkeep was instrumental in Arbuthnot financing the launch of his London studio). His second wife Florence Annie Davison was the widow of George Davison, a millionaire through investments in Kodak, and her inherited wealth enabled the couple to retire to Jersey in 1931.
