BPH member Rob Crow is seeking assistance to help identify the members of this group of eight photographers. Seated nearest the camera is Walter Benington (1872-1936) the Pictorialist photographer and leading member of the Linked Ring in its later years. He was a member of the Ring’s “Hanging Committee” from 1907. Margaret Harker (1979: 109) has a photograph of the 1909 Committee so this one may possibly be from earlier.
The print is from a collection of family and miscellaneous portraits from a collection of Benington’s work now in Australia.
Any suggestions warmly welcomed. Please comment below.
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E. O. Hoppe was involved around that time - there's a 1907 photograph of him, distinctively un-mustached as one or two in the photograph are https://eohoppe.photoshelter.com/image?&_bqG=8&_bqH=eJwLCTP...
As you can see from this photo EH did smoke a pipe per this photograph https://eohoppe.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Hoppe-Self-Portraits...
For what it's worth, there's quite a clear photograph of George Davison of LRB/Kodak here http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_disp...