Court Dress Images by Lafayette

For an introduction into the role played by (female) dress at court, see: The Seal of Social Approval or 'How Girls are Presented at Court' by Jacqueline Ansell published in The Court Historian, Volume 4, 2 [ISSN 1462-9712], pp 151-60

The image below right "The Drawing-room: Photographing a Debutante" appeared in The Illustrated London News, 20 May 1893 and gives a realistic impression of a photographic impression in a studio, such as Lafayette. In this case the photographer directs the shoot from behind the camera, which was not always the case as studios came to offer a "style of photograph" as opposed to a photograph taken by a named photographer. Clicking on any of the three images below will load a page showing these images in greater detail with source information.

Clicking on a thumbnail in the vertical listing below will open the relevant catalogue form with a larger image.
See also the coronation years of 1902 and 1911
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Lady Belhaven 1897

Duke of Sotomayor 1897

Hon Mrs Balfour 1897

Duchess of Bedford 1898

Lady Belhaven 1898

Jemima Blackwood (later Lady Laveson) 1898

Lady Clarke 1898

Baroness de Geer 1898

Marchioness of Ely 1898

Baroness von Haugwitz 1898

Lady Howard de Walden (later Lady Ludlow) 1898

Mrs Irwin 1898

Colonel Thomas Angelo Irwin 1898

Hon Mrs RJ Kennedy 1898

Baroness Linden 1898

Baroness Linden

Lady MacDonnell 1898

Lady Waring 1898

Lady Clementine Waring 1898

Miss Waterlow 1898

Countess di Carrobio 1899

Sir William Dunn 1899

Mrs Joseph Thomas Firbank 1899

Lady Osborne 1899

Lady Rundle 1899

Sir Leslie Rundle 1899

Lady Sidgreaves 1899

Madame Vagliano [unidentified] 1899

Maharani of Cooch Behar 1900

Countess of Carnarvon 1900

Lady Darell 1900

Hon Mrs Devereux 1900

Lady Doxford 1900

Lady Gordon 1900

Baron Graevenitz 1900

Baroness Graevenitz 1900

Lady Meiklejohn 1900

Duchess of Somerset 1900

Lady Trelawny 1900

Lady White 1900

General Sir Robert Biddulph 1901

Sir Edward Bradford 1901

Sir Charles Bruce 1901

Lady Bruce 1901

Lord Clinton 1901

Lord Leith 1901

Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell 1901

Sir James Reid 1901

See also thumbnails for the coronation year of 1902

Lady Bennett 1902

Baroness Boxall 1902

Maharani of Cooch Behar 1902

Monsieur Paul Cambon 1902

Lady Cooper 1902

Miss Cooper 1902

Lady Hart 1902

Baroness Hayashi 1902

Louis Joseph Janvier (Haiti) 1902

Lady Munro 1902

Grand Duke Michael of Russia & Countess de Torby 1902

Countess de Torby 1902

Baroness de Stoeckl 1902

Countess of Tankerville 1902

Lady Brooke-Hitching 1903

Sir Thomas and Lady Brooke-Hitching 1903

Sir Catchick Paul Chater 1903

Lady Decies 1903

Sir G Chubb 1903

Hon Mrs Henry Yarde-Buller 1903

Lady Fiennes 1903

Lady Fowler 1903

Lady Bass 1904

Sir John and Lady Craggs and daughter 1904

Lady Craggs and daughter 1904

Miss Mona House 1904

Lady Letchworth 1904

Hon Mrs Lawson Johnston and daughters 1904

Lady Smiley 1904

Lady Munro 1905

Sir Clifton Robinson 1905

Lady Aberdour 1906

Lady Cable 1906

Lady Crofton 1906

Sir Morgan George Crofton Bt and Lady Crofton 1906

Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser 1906

Sir FWR Fryer 1906

Baron de Ros

Mrs Jack Barnato Joel 1907

Miss Beryl Kearly 1907

Lady Shelford 1907

Lady Colman 1908

Colonel Sir Alan Colquhoun 1908

Lady Deramore 1908

Lord and Lady Deramore 1908

Mrs Le Strange (later Marchioness Townshend) 1908

Sir Francis Bridgeman 1909

Sir Russell Cotes 1909

Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh VC 1909

B Mullen 1909

Lady Brocklehurst 1910

Sir John Prichard-Jones 1910

See also thumbnails for the coronation year of 1911

Hon Mrs Adderley 1911

Miss Violet Belfield 1911

Mrs Bowser 1911

Hon Mrs Alexander Maclean 1911

Hon Colin Campbell 1911

August Langham Christie 1911

Countess Clancarty 1911

Mrs Clifford Lefton 1911

Mrs Culme-Seymour 1911

Lord Murray of Elibank 1911

Lady Malcolm 1911

Mrs Richard McBridge 1911

Mrs Alexander MacCormick 1911

Judge Marris 1911

Sir Walter and Lady Menzies 1911

Madame de Raybaud 1911

Lady Smiley 1911

Lady Stavridi 1911

Miss Violet Strange 1911

Marchioness of Townshend 1911

Miss Sarita Ward 1911

Mrs Herbert Ward 1911

Mrs Philip Wilmot 1911

Mrs RP Wodehouse 1911




Miss Angerstein 1912	Miss Naomi Bentinck 1912	Countess Bentinck 1912


Captain Adrian Vincent Bethell 1912	Canadian Ministers Group 1912	Lord Cornwallis 1912


Miss De Bittencourt (later Countess of Lisburne) 1912	Viscountess Downe, later Mrs AM Bury 1912	Lieutenant-Colonel Keith David Erskine 1912


Frederick Edward Guest 1912	AD Gurd 1912	Mrs Charles Graeme Higgins 1912


Brigadier-General and Mrs Reginald Francis Legge 1912



Lady Ella Harmwood-Banner 1913	Lady Roberts 1913	Sir Arthur Lewis Webb 1913



Miss Angerstein 1914	Major Brian Bibby 1914	Major Henry Campbell Chads and sons 1914


Lady Constance Gore 1914	Mrs Hugh Palliser Hickman 1914	Sir Bryan and Lady Leighton


Lady Marks 1914	Countess Sondes 1914	Lady Stafford 1914


Sir Albert Henry Stanley, later Lord AShfield 1914	Sir Samuel Turner 1914	Sir Henry Webb 1914


Lady Webb 1914	Lady Winfrey

Lady Athlumney 1920

Madame Ballivian 1920

Commander F Branco 1920

Lord Illingworth 1920

Sir Lauchlan Charles MacKinnon 1920

Mrs THR Plumer, later Viscountess Plumer 1920

Mrs Charles Leslie Rome 1920

Viscountess Sidmouth 1920

Mamerto Urriolagoitia, later President of Bolivia 1920

Mrs Evelyn Twysden Wickham 1920

Lord Illingworth 1921

Sir Harry Renwick 1921

Madame Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo 1921

Wellington Koo 1921

Sir George Buchanan 1922

Mrs Ogden Hammond 1922

Lady Illingworth 1922

Lord Illingworth 1922

Mrs George Knowles 1922

Princess Shimadzu 1922

Sir Edward Cecil and Lady Moore 1922

Lady Moore 1922

Lady White-Smith 1922

Mr & Mrs Hugh Myddleton Buter 1923

Lady Hansen 1923

Mrs William Hutchinson 1923

Miss Kathleen Keswick 1923

Claud Cecil Augustus Kirke 1923

Lady Arbuthnot Lane 1923

Miss Mary Latta, later Comtesse d'Antraigues 1923

Lady Latta 1923

Mrs Bertram Wellington Parker 1923

Lady Renwick 1923

Ella Renwick, later Mrs Leslie Wilson Barnett 1923

Captain Walter William Shaw 1923

Mrs Walter William Shaw 1923

Miss Gwendolen Shaw 1923

Rt Hon Sir William Turner 1923

Lady Waring 1923

Lady Beauchamp 1924

Mrs Walter Bridge 1924

Miss Morton Bell 1924

Lady Calvert 1924

Sir Joseph Calvert 1924

Lt-Col and Mrs Kenneth Campbell 1924

Mrs Aubrey Cole 1924

Mrs Eardley-Wilmot 1924

Miss Eardley-Wilmot later Lady Shakerley 1924

Colonel Ivan Douglas Gutherie 1924

Mrs Ashley Hall (née Beauchamp) 1924

Lord Harmsworth and family 1924

Lady Jackson 1924

Mrs Frank Billings Kellogg 1924

Mrs Lawson Johnston 1924

Mr & Mrs Lawson Johnston 1924

Mrs H Gore Lloyd and Miss Mary Langley Morrison 1924

Mr & Mrs Guy Loveband 1924

Mrs Charles McCrea 1924

Miss Mabel Mitchell 1924

Mrs and Mrs Percy Mitchell 1924

Lady Newton 1924

Lady Read 1924

Lady Tata 1924

Mrs John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett and Mrs WC Punchard 1924

Mrs Charles Wynne-Jones 1924

Lady Ackroyd 1925

Lady Bower 1925

Sir Alfred, Lady and Miss Bower 1925

Miss Betty Bower 1925

Dr. William Caithness 1925

Mrs FC Clarkson 1925

Lady Cory 1925

Dr Vincente Cuervo-Marquez 1925

Captain Geoffrey Frederick Robert Hirst 1925

Colonel George Richard Lane-Fox (later Lord Bingley) 1925

General Rt Hon Sir John Grenfell Maxwell 1925

Captain Eion James Henry Merry 1925

Mrs TC Owen 1925

Mrs and Miss Perkins 1925

Sir William Robert and Lady Pryke 1925

Miss Rideal 1925

Captain and Mrs William Crockett Thorne 1925

Lady Evelyn Vestey, née Brodstone 1925

Lady Bedford 1926

James Vincent Coyle 1926

Mrs Gordon-Brown 1926

Lady Hall 1926

Lady Inchiquin 1926

Lady Irwin 1926

Miss Julia De Little 1926

Iichi Kishi 1926

Lady Inchuiquin 1926

Iichi and Madame Kishi 1926

Madame Kishi 1926

Madame Tatakimi Mitsui 1926

Mr & Mrs Herbert Parkes 1926

Hon Sir Archdale Parkhill 1926

Captain and Mrs John Noel Pelly 1926

Lady Sleigh 1926

Lady and Miss Sleigh 1926

Evelyn HP Slessor 1926

Nesta Villers-Stuart 1926

Lady Waterlow 1926

Sir William Alfred Waterlow 1926

Mrs and Miss Woodcock 1926

Miss Isla Woodcock 1926

Sir Charles Albert Batho 1927

Lady Batho and maids of honour 1927

Lord and Lady Batho and sheriffs 1927

Lady Blades 1927

Lady Blades and daughters 1927

Lady Blunt 1927

Miss Eileen Gregory 1927

Miss Florence Vestey Jones 1927

GF Luttrell 1927

Mrs Joseph Pike, Mrs HWL Waller, Mrs F Leonard Bishop 1927

Miss Rosario Scrope 1927

Miss Kathleen Vestey 1927

Miss Alice Vestey 1927

Mrs Frederick S Whalley 1927

Miss Elaine Bishop 1928

Mrs Douglas and Miss Margery Cooke 1928

Madame and Admiral Costa Pelle 1928

Lady Dalrymple 1928

Miss Maryant Fielding-Hall 1928

Lady Green 1928

Mrs Nevitt 1928

Miss Anne Washington Perine 1928

Monsieur Elis Radonicich 1928

Mrs Christopher C Tollit 1928

Mrs Russell Webster 1928

Mrs John North Willys 1928

Miss Dulcie Wright 1928

Mlle Regitze de Berner 1929

Lady Davis 1929

Lady Every and Mrs Vivian Horrocks Ward 1929

Walter John Fryer 1929

Mrs MM Hughes 1929

Mrs Roderick Macklin 1929

Miss Cecilia Mayo 1929

Mrs Rosslewin Westropp Morgan 1929

Richard Frederick Bryan O'Callaghan 1929

Miss Cora Sluiter 1929

Miss Nancy Stewart 1929

Nabuco de Araújo (Brazilian Minister) [ND]

Colonel Edward Holmes Baldock [ND]

Colonel Cradock [ND]

Sir Clifford John Cory Bt [ND]

Erlhoven [?] [undated]

Colonel Sir Charles Bean Euan-Smith [nd]

Signora Pansa

Sir Walter and Lady Palmer

6th Earl Spencer [nd]

Thomas [nd]

Waring [nd]