Malcolm Arbuthnot (born Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parsons, 1877, Cobham, Surrey – died 27 March 1967) was a pictorialist photographer and artist.
In 1907, he joined the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, an organisation founded in 1892 by Alfred Maskell and others dissatisfied with the ethos of the Royal Photographic Society exhibitions, with the aim to promote naturalistic and aesthetic photography as an independent art
From 1914, Arbuthnot ran a portrait studio in London's New
Bond Street, in the early 20th century photographing many celebrities including
the actress Lillah McCarthy, the pianist Harriet Cohen and the poet Robert
Nichols. His studio, along with many of his works, was destroyed in a fire. He
was a friend of George Bernard Shaw
He combined his interests in photography and art by using
gum and oil pigment processes, after joining the Linked Ring making
increasingly controversial anti-naturalistic gum prints.
After World War I, he gave up photography in favour of
painting, working in oils, watercolours and gouaches.
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