Maxine Elliott (1868-1940)
William McKenzie Morrison (1857 - 1921)
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
wood, plaster and photographic paper
Measurements
240 mm (H)203 mm (W)215 mm (H)180 mm (W)137 mm (H)97 mm (W)
Place of origin
Chicago
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246733
Summary
Studio photograph presented as a cabinet card. Signed but not dated.
Full description
Maxine is looking directly at the camera, it is a modified image, from a formal head a shoulders study. (There were many images taken at Morrison's studio in Chicargo of Maxine during this session). Signed Maxine Elliott. There is another of these cards in the Collection: 1247798 Maxine would have known Margaret Greville through Edward VII and her mutual friends in France, America and English society. Maxine Elliott Hicks was born in 1868 in Rockland, Maine. She became a starlet of the silent movies, changing her name to Maxine Elliott she became an acclaimed stage actress and shrewd business woman she starred in The Merchant of Venice and Her Own Way on Broadway. In 1905 she came to London and King Edward Vll asked that she be presented to him. She became part of the Marlborough set and had many celebrities, including Winston Churchill, at her villa on the coast at Cannes. Maxine died on 5 March 1940 in Cannes, France.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed ink along the bottom of the card: Maxine Elliott, and underlined.
Makers and roles
William McKenzie Morrison (1857 - 1921), photographer