Alice Mary Hughes (1857–1939) was a British portrait photographer and businesswoman specializing in images of royalty, fashionable women and children.
[2] In her day, she was a leading photographer of royalty, fashionable women and children, producing elegant platinotype prints.
[3] In 1914, for a short period before the First World War, she ran a business in Berlin but returned to London at the beginning of the war, opening a studio in Ebury Street in 1915.
[3][4] The Ebury Street studio was not as successful as her first business and she closed it in 1933, retiring to Worthing where she died after a fall in her bedroom in 1939.
In 1910, she sold 50,000 negatives to Speaight Ltd.[5] A pioneer of portrait photography, Hughes developed a distinctive style "by fusing the conventions of society portraiture with the cool, monochromatic tones of the platinum print."