Lock & Whitfield
(active 1856-1894), PhotographersArtist 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.
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG x22334
Melesina Mary Cholmeley (née Trench)
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1862
NPG Ax9895
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG Ax14875
Georgina Elizabeth Ward (née Moncreiffe), Countess of Dudley
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x132253
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Alexandra
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax24178
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
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax46738
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Alexandra
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG x18898
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG Ax25054
by Lock & Whitfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG Ax128322
Teresa Elizabeth Furtado (Mrs John Clarke)
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, 1870s
NPG Ax7700
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, 1870s
NPG Ax7716
possibly by Lock & Whitfield, published by John C. Murdoch
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1870s
NPG x46993
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, circa early 1870s
NPG x17929
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, circa early 1870s
NPG x17935
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Hardwicke & Bogue
woodburytype, circa early 1870s; published 1879
NPG Ax45749
Lydia Thompson (Eliza Hodges Thompson)
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on paper mount, 1873
NPG x26865
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype carte-de-visite, 1873
NPG Ax28453
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype on card mount, published 18 September 1875
NPG x21242
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, circa 1875
NPG Ax7681
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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.