Mathilde Weil

Mathilde Weil (January 1872 — June 1942) was an American editor, literary agent, and portrait photographer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[3] One of her first cousins, Nathalie Fontaine Lyons, married tobacco executive Bowman Gray Sr.[4] She attended Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Johnson's School.

[11][12] In 1898 her "Rosa Rosarum" portrait was included in the first Philadelphia Photographic Salon, a juried show organized by Alfred Stieglitz.

[14] She exhibited some of her portraits of prominent Philadelphians (including Agnes Repplier, Margaret Deland, and Violet Oakley) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1916.

[16] Weil left Philadelphia and photography by 1920, returning to the publishing industry as a literary agent in New York,[17][18] and eventually moving to San Francisco, California.