Alexander Bassano
(1829-1913), PhotographerSitter in 4 portraits
Artist associated with 2805 portraits
Born in London, Bassano received artistic training in the studios of painters Augustus Egg and William Beverley, and at Thomas Heatherley's Art School. He opened his first photographic studio in 1850 on Regent Street, London. In 1876 he moved to Old Bond Street, where the firm was located until 1921. The studio was large enough to accommodate an eighty-foot panoramic background scene mounted on rollers, which provided a variety of outdoor scenes or court backgrounds. Bassano retired in around 1903 and had reputedly earned £60,000 through portraiture. He married Adelaide Lancaster in 1850 and they had three children. He died aged eighty-four in Acton, London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x31991
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x31992
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x31993
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x31994
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x31995
Fraser Parry Jones Warren Mortimer
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900s
NPG x32042
Fraser Parry Jones Warren Mortimer
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1900s
NPG x32043
by Alexander Bassano
whole-plate glass negative, 1900
NPG x33091
Florence Meta (née Draper), Lady Gooch
copy by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 June 1933 (1900s)
NPG x157392
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
by Alexander Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, circa 1900
NPG x95728
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
by Alexander Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, circa 1900
NPG x95729
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
by Alexander Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, circa 1900
NPG x95730
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
by Alexander Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, circa 1900
NPG x95731
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden
by Alexander Bassano
12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, circa 1900
NPG x95732
Related People
- Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano) (daughter)
- Adelaide Rose Ainslie Bassano (née Lancaster) (wife)
- Clement George Alexander Bassano (son)
- Hermione Una Adelaide Camilla Gunton-Turner (née Serjeant) (granddaughter)
- Sybil Ainslie Ida Hanson (née Serjeant) (granddaughter)
- Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano) (daughter)
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