Charles Jones

Charles Harry Jones (1866 – 15 November 1959) was an English gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables.

Biography Born in Wolverhampton in 1866, although his father was a master butcher, Charles Harry Jones became a gardener. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and cultivation of fruits and vegetables. He was also ingenious in providing a long season for fruit and vegetables. As a photographer, Jones was noted for his documentation of the fruits of his gardening labours. Jones also offered his services as a photographer to other gardeners.

He married in 1894. By 1910 he and his family moved to Lincolnshire, where he died on 15 November 1959, aged ninety-two. and by other means. It has been collected by institutions and private collectors and exhibited at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Musée de Elysée, Lausanne and at other venues and also been the subject of a book. In 2021 several of Jones' photographs were included in an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery about the history of photography through images of plants and botany, since they illustrate the use of gelatin silver printing.