A Madame Yevonde portrait of Mrs Bryan Guinness
Mrs Bryan Guinness, formerly Diana Mitford, taken at the age of 22. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait and commercial photographer active between 1915 and 1975. She is particularly well known for her astonishingly modern work using the Vivex colour process during the 1930s. Her images of society folk and other personalities appeared regularly in The Sketch or The Tatler through the 1920s and 30s. Diana Mitford was one of the six infamous sisters, daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale. She married into the wealthy Guinness family at the age of 19 in 1929, but began a love affair with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists ('Blackshirts') in the 1930s. During the Second World War, she and Mosley were imprisoned as Nazi sympathisers
