Baron Adolf de Meyer c.1919
Adolf Gayne de Meyer was born in Paris in 1868 (said jacques-Emile Blanche), or at Helsinky (Edna Woolman Chase, in Always in Vogue), or in Austria (Cecil Beaton) or in germania (who’s who, 1905)… He lived in London in 1895 and was a friend of the prince of Wales. He was married in 1899 to Donna Olga Alberta Caracciolo who was maybe a daughter of Edouard VII. He began photography in 1903, worked with Diaghilev. In 1914, he went to America and worked for Vogue (1914-1918) and Harper’s Bazaar
