(Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
(1819-1884), Photographer, writer and lecturerArtist associated with 40 portraits
Born in England in 1819, Hughes began his photographic career in 1847 as an assistant in the studio of J.J.E. Mayall in London. After a brief stint working in Glasgow, he returned to London in 1855 to assume ownership of Mayall's studio. Hughes later built his own studio on the Isle of Wight, where he often photographed Queen Victoria. Toward the end of his life he teamed up with his assistant, Gustav Mullins, to form a new partnership, Hughes & Mullins. Hughes was popular both as a portrait photographer and as a writer on the subject of photography. He died in 1884. The National Portrait Gallery holds over 30 of his photographs.
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen print, late 1860s
NPG P149
Alicia Ellen Neve Little (née Bewicke) (Mrs Archibald Little)
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x128756
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax77125
Sybil Mary (née Grey), Duchess of St Albans
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax68095
Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce with three unknown men
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax10048
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia)
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x131668
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG x36352
Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
NPG x15568
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x22514
Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth (née Grey) as a girl with her family
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1863
NPG Ax68093
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse; Queen Alexandra; Queen Victoria
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax46783
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Victoria
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax46727
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Victoria
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG Ax46165
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Queen Victoria
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG x196307
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1864
NPG x36270
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG Ax24188
Prince (Dejatch) Alamayou of Abyssinia (Prince Alemayehu Tewodros of Ethiopia)
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1868
On display in Room 23 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x74572
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen carte-de-visite, 1868
NPG Ax30351
Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Bt
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
albumen cabinet card, 1870-1877
NPG x6167
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