1. Frederick Hollyer was an English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings, particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and for portraits of literary and artistic figures of late Victorian and Edwardian London.
Frederick Hollyer's first published works were mezzotint engravings of two paintings by Edwin Landseer published by J McQueen in 1869.
Frederick Hollyer made albumen and carbon prints, but his preferred medium was the platinotype or platinum print process, admired for its permanence and great tonal range.
Under the patronage of Frederic Leighton, Frederick Hollyer began to photograph paintings and drawings in the 1870s.
Frederick Hollyer took studio portraits and specialised in interior and exterior photos of houses.
Frederick Hollyer's sitters included the artists Walter Crane, William Morris, G F Watts, and Burne-Jones; the writers John Ruskin, H G Wells, and George Bernard Shaw; and the actresses Mrs Patrick Campbell and Ellen Terry.
Frederick Hollyer eschewed the formal poses of most studio portraiture of his day; in an 1899 interview in The Photogram he said.
Frederick Hollyer did much to establish photography as a fine art.
Frederick Hollyer's work was widely acclaimed in his own day; in 1897, a critic in The Studio lamented:.
Frederick Hollyer joined the Royal Photographic Society 1865 and became a Fellow in 1895, but was involved in The Linked Ring, a society formed in to support pictorialism in opposition to the Photographic Society.
Frederick Hollyer was a member of the Solar Club and became one of the Founder Members of the Professional Photographers' Association in 1901.
Frederick Hollyer died 21 November 1933 at his eldest son's home in Blewbury, aged 95.
Today, Frederick Hollyer is remembered chiefly for his photographs of Burne-Jones, William Morris, and their circle.