Photograph of J.J. Jennings
1930
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1930
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Photograph of J.J. Jennings is a 1930 photographic by Walter Barnett Studios, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photograph is of J.J. Jennings. It's a work by Walter Barnett Studios. J.J. Jennings worked on advance publicity for the D'Oyly Carte Company. He was also depicted in a cartoon published in The Tatler around the same time as the photo. To learn more about the style and technique used in this photograph, look up the work of the artist: Walter Barnett Studios.
A half-length, face-on photographic portrait of J.J. Jennings, seated with his left elbow resting on the back of his chair and his left hand touching his cheek, was taken in 1930 by Walter Barnett Studios. Barnett, an Australian-born photographer who operated studios in London and later in France, created the image during his time in Dieppe. Jennings was involved in advance publicity for the D'Oyly Carte Company in the early 1930s. The photograph was later inherited by Peter Parker and bequeathed to the museum from his father, Stanley H. Parker, a longtime secretary for the Savoy Theatre and…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Walter Barnett Studios took black-and-white portraits of Australians in the 1920s and ’30s.
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