Mayer & Pierson
(active 1850s-1860s), PhotographersArtist associated with 30 portraits
Pierre Pierson (born in Hinckange en Moselle in 1822), and Léopold Ernest (born in 1817) and Louis Frédéric Mayer (born in 1822) joined forces in Paris in 1855. Previously, the Mayer brothers had produced coloured photographs for which they received numerous awards. The trio exhibited numerous portraits and cartes-de visite at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and again in 1862. Léopold Ernest Mayer died in c. 1865, and both Louis Frédéric Mayer and Pierson died in 1913. The National Portrait Gallery holds more than 20 of their photographs.
Napoléon III, Emperor of France
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite
NPG Ax38435
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour
after Unknown artist, after Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, (circa 1855)
NPG Ax17896
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG Ax17179
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax17182
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax18254
William Henry Gunning Bagshawe
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax39771
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x29291
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax46372
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax46371
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x12662
William I, King of Württemberg
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, early-mid 1860s
NPG x74582
after Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x12686
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen print, 1860s
NPG x12663
Sophia, Queen of the Netherlands
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x74586
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG x139651
Napoléon III, Emperor of France
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax196523
by Mayer & Pierson
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1860
NPG Ax46790
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG Ax29959
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x74639
by Mayer & Pierson
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x74638
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