Cecil moved to 8 Grafton Street in 1923—designing and furnishing an elaborately decorated studio, he often used patterned backdrops and lit the subject using soft reflected light.
His portraits at the time included Gertrude Lawrence[1] and, in 1925, the then-Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) sat for the first of many royal sittings.
Some of these unnamed subjects include studies of actress Juliette Compton, Justine Johnstone, Edna Best, Lady Diana Cooper and Viscountess Curzon.
Established as a success, he exhibited regularly at the London Salon of Photography and works appear in the annual Photograms of the Year between 1914–1928.
Although the studio continued as a functioning entity until the Second World War, including official photographs of King George VI.