RA Collection: People and Organisations
Elliott & Fry was a Victorian photography studio founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott (1835-1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840-1897). For a century the firm's core business was taking and publishing photographs of the Victorian public and social, artistic, scientific and political luminaries. In the 1880s, the company operated three studios and four large storage facilities for negatives, with a printing works at Barnet.
By 1894, the Elliott & Fry studio at 7 Gloucester Terrace, Kensington, had been taken over by Clarence Edmund Fry and his twenty-nine year old son, Clarence ('Clare') Edmund Fry junior. From 1894 until beyond the end of the First World War, the studio at 7 Gloucester Terrace, South Kensington went under the name of C. E. Fry & Son.