Peter Rose Pulham

{{Short description|British photographer and surrealist painter}}

Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) was a British photographer and surrealist painter. Examples of his works are in the collections of the Tate and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.{{cite web |title=Peter Rose Pulham |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/peter-rose-pulham |publisher=National Galleries Scotland}}

Pulham was born in 1910 in Norfolk.{{cite book |title=Art and Artists: Volume 13, Issues 4–12 |date=1978 |publisher=Hansom Books |pages=108}} In the 1930s, he started to work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar, living intermittently in Paris and London. In Paris, he was close to a broad circle of artists, including Pablo Picasso and surrealists such as Max Ernst. He also met Theodora Rosling with whom he lived together for four years, moving to England just before the beginning of the war.{{cite news |last1=Hourican |first1=Emily |title=Theodora: the original domestic goddess |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/24285/28085 |work=Irish Independent |date=3 April 2015}} In England, he became close friends with Francis Bacon.