Edwin Dockree

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Edwin Dockree (1860–1942)[1] was a British architectural photographer. His images are of English architecture and feature religious and secular buildings as well as villages and landscapes.

Biography[]

Edwin Dockree was born in Islington, London on 24 May 1860.[1] He was the first child of the better known landscape artist, Mark Edwin Dockree (1834–1904) and Ann Elizabeth Blagg (1835–1914).[1] Dockree senior's paintings can be found on a number of auction house websites and letters written by him are held by The Royal Academy of Arts .[2][3]

On leaving school Dockree pursued a career in banking, later becoming a bank manager.[1]

Dockree married Martha Dorothy Whitaker (1861–1938) in 1887 at Fulham Registry Office.[1] Their son, Eric Percy Dockree, was born on 24th May 1890.[4]

Alongside his daily work and family responsibilities, Dockree developed an interest in photography and images taken by him appear in photographic archives and in print.

Photographic legacy[]

Dockree became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1887 and he exhibited his photographs at annual exhibitions of the Society.[5]

A collection of Dockree's photographs are held at Historic England where he is described as an Architectural Photographer. The archive contains 145 glass plate negatives thought to date from 1900-1940. The images are of buildings from across England including churches, cathedrals, houses, villages, castles and landscapes. The images have been digitised and appear on the Historic England website.[6]

The Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art, an independent college of the University of London, holds a number of images attributed to Edwin Dockree.[7]

Bibliography[]

In addition to the collections cited above, Dockree's images appear in A E Richardson's 'Monumental Classical Architecture of Great Britain and Ireland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'.[8] A reference to Richardson's book appears in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol. XXI, Third Series, Nov. 1913-Oct 1914, where Edwin is credited as follows, “...illustrated in a series of Photographs taken by E Dockree.” [9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ancestry Library Edition". ancestrylibrary.proquest.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  2. ^ "Dockree, Mark Edwin - Artists A-G - Home - Victoria Fine Art". www.victoria-fine-art.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  3. ^ "Mark Edwin Dockree | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  4. ^ "Ancestry Library Edition". ancestrylibrary.proquest.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  5. ^ "exhibitor details". erps.dmu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  6. ^ "Archive Search Results | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  7. ^ "Conway Library". The Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  8. ^ Richardson, A. E (1914). Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland: during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries. London: Batsford. OCLC 2405420.
  9. ^ RIBA Journal. Royal Institute of British Architects. 1914.
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