Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Rita Martin NPG x125451

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rita Martin

Margareta 'Rita' Martin started her photographic career in 1897 when she helped her elder sister Lallie Charles to run her studio. In 1906 she opened her own studio, working in a similar studio to Charles, photographing subjects in pale colours against a pure white background, and focused on actresses such as Lily Elsie and Lily Brayton and child studies, particularly of Gladys Cooper's two children. Several of her most reproduced child studies were of the Luke Children, whose father, a carpenter for... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.