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Lock & Whitfield

(active 1856-1894), Photographers

Artist associated with 627 portraits
Samuel Lock was an artist who in the early 1850s was converting talbotype portraits into painted miniatures. In September 1856, he joined forces with George Whitfield, who had recently opened a photographic portrait studio on Regent Street in London. The firm established a branch studio on Kings Road, Brighton in 1864 and are best remembered for the series of woodbury type portraits published in Men of Mark.

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Henry Le Jeune, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG Ax14875

Henry Le Jeune

by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG Ax14875

Sir Richard Baggallay, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG Ax39735

Sir Richard Baggallay

by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, November 1864
NPG Ax39735

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Alexandra, by Lock & Whitfield, published by  A. Marion, Son & Co - NPG Ax46738

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Alexandra

by Lock & Whitfield, published by A. Marion, Son & Co
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax46738

James Henry Mapleson, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG Ax25054

James Henry Mapleson

by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG Ax25054

Unknown woman, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG Ax128322

Unknown woman

by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG Ax128322

John Bright, possibly by Lock & Whitfield, published by  John C. Murdoch - NPG x46993

John Bright

possibly by Lock & Whitfield, published by John C. Murdoch
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x46993

Sir Henry Irving, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG x17929

Sir Henry Irving

by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, circa early 1870s
NPG x17929

Sir Henry Irving, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG x17935

Sir Henry Irving

by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, circa early 1870s
NPG x17935

Sir Henry Irving, by Lock & Whitfield, published by  Hardwicke & Bogue - NPG Ax45749

Sir Henry Irving

by Lock & Whitfield, published by Hardwicke & Bogue
woodburytype, circa early 1870s; published 1879
NPG Ax45749

Jean Luie, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG Ax28453

Jean Luie

by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1873
NPG Ax28453

Charles James Mathews, by Lock & Whitfield - NPG x21242

Charles James Mathews

by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, published 18 September 1875
NPG x21242

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Jimmy Carreras

13 May 2018, 00:51

Samuel Robert Lock 4 x GGF

Born in St Marylebone 1822.
Christened September 27 1822.
Married Harriet Turner Moore October 20 1852 in St Pancras.

STUDIOS:
1. 100 Regent Street, Westminster 1853 - 1854.
2. 178 Regent Street, Westminster 1855 - August 1856.

Succeeded by Lock & Whitfield.
1855: photographer living at 9 Bernard Street, Regent's Park Road, St Pancras.

Exhibited at RA 1849 - 1854 (including self - portrait 1851).

Educated at King's College.

Travelled to South Australia 1839, employed as artist in Government Survey Office; visited Tasmania & Pacific Islands.

Self - taught miniature painter.

On return to England, joined Nikolaas Henneman as a photographic painter; later opened Regent Street studio for miniature painting, converting Talbotypes into miniatures. Joined by George Carpe Whitfield in 1856.

Principal partner in Woodbury Company; opened studio in Brighton 1863 - 1884.

'The Permanent Printing Co.' and later by the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Co. (the two were possibly operating in parallel). The partnership between Walter Bentley Woodbury, George Corpe Whitefield, Joseph Cundall and Samuel Robert Lock which formed the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Co. was dissolved in December 1876 when Woodbury left the partnership, the others carried on the business. The firm was taken over by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1891.

Samuel Lock took up residence in Brighton in 1877, but died 4 years later on 9th May 1881

6 month pleasure trip in Europe & Middle East, starting in late 1880, caught bronchitis in Italy.

Died in Hampstead May 9 1881.