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Paul Tanqueray (14 January 1905 - September 1991) was an English photographer.
Cecil Beaton designed book jackets, and costumes for charity matinees, learning
the craft of photography at the studio of Paul Tanqueray, until Vogue
took him on regularly in 1927.
Tanqueray was born Harry Thomas Hunter Atkinson in Littlehampton, Sussex. Tanqueray first became interested in the theatre and photography when he was at Tonbridge School (1920-1923) and won the school's Photographic prize. Through his contact with an ex-pupil of the Tonbridge School Hugh Cecil, Tanqueray began his photographic career as one of his pupils. Paul Tanqueray opened his first studio at 139, High Street, Kensington in 1925.[1] As London's then youngest photographer, he was in a perfect position to document an era that had become obsessed with youth and modernism. During this time he employed an ex-Cambridge graduate as his assistant, Cecil Beaton, until Beaton was taken on by Vogue.[2] Five years of success in Kensington led to a move the more fashionable West End of London at 8, Dover Street, near the Ritz Hotel. Tanqueray's photographs appeared regularly in the weekly Sketch and Tatler and most frequently inside and on the cover of Theatre World. His work, including Ethel Mannin and his 1929 and 1933 portraits of Anna May Wong, was also selected and hung at the annual London Salon of Photography. During the Second World War Tanqueray worked mainly with Chelsea Home Guard. After the war he re-opened his studio at 30, Thurloe Place in South Kensington, where his 1950's famous images included Elizabeth Seal, Dame Joan Plowright, and actress Claire Bloom. Tanqueray retired in 1965, and in two tranches donated his prints in 1975, and his negatives in 1983 to the National Portrait Gallery. Tanqueray died in September 1991.[3]
paul tanqueray (1905-1991) ‘douglas byng’ 1934
Phyllis Konstam; Bunny Austin
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1931
8 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (215 mm x 190 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x17232
Sybil Thorndike in 'Granite'
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1926
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (240 mm x 192 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x26871
Tallulah Bankhead
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1928
8 3/4 in. x 7 1/2 in. (222 mm x 192 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x7246
Nancy Beaton
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1928
9 5/8 in. x 7 1/2 in. (243 mm x 192 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x7252
Anna May Wong
by Paul Tanqueray
whole-plate glass negative, 1929
Photographs Collection
NPG x180036
Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley
by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, early 1930s
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG x180082
Gertrude Lawrence
by Paul Tanqueray
modern bromide print from original negative, 1932
12 3/4 in. x 9 in. (323 mm x 230 mm)
Photographs Collection
NPG x29700
Anthony Asquith
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1932
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (241 mm x 191 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x7245
Agnes George de Mille
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1932
9 5/8 in. x 7 1/2 in. (244 mm x 190 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x13383
John Gielgud
by Paul Tanqueray
bromide print, 1932
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (240 mm x 189 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x15485
Emlyn Williams
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1932
9 1/2 in.x 7 1/2 in. (242 mm x 190 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x36430
Baba Beaton
by Paul Tanqueray
bromide print, 1932
9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. (242 mm x 190 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x7251
Maurice Evans
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage print, 1935
9 5/8 in. x 7 1/2 in. (243 mm x 191 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x194263
Cecil Beaton
by Paul Tanqueray
resin contact print from original negative, 1937
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1980
Photographs Collection
NPG x44847a
Ivor Novello
by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, 1938
Photographs Collection
NPG x180336
Vivien Leigh; Laurence Olivier
by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, 1942
Photographs Collection
NPG x180373
Norman Hartnell
by Paul Tanqueray
bromide print, 1948
8 3/8 in. x 6 1/2 in. (214 mm x 164 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x17437
Noël Coward
by Paul Tanqueray
chlorobromide print, 1952
9 7/8 in. x 7 3/4 in. (250 mm x 196 mm) overall
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x7259
Alfred Lunt; Lynn Fontanne; Cecil Beaton; Noël Coward
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1952
8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (204 mm x 252 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x40493
Cecil Beaton; Kenneth Peacock Tynan
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1953
8 3/4 in. x 7 3/4 in. (221 mm x 198 mm)
Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x40492
Sir Michael Redgrave
by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print on card mount, 1960
9 7/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (250 mm x 199 mm)
Given by Paul Tanqueray, 1975
Photographs Collection
NPG x22017
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