Herbert Watkins
(1828-1916), Photographer(George) Herbert Watkins
Sitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 261 portraits
Watkins opened his Regent Street studio in 1856, and produced a series of photographs of distinguished contemporaries, which he published with printed biographies under the title of National Gallery of Photographic Portraits. He claimed in his advertisements that his photographs were 'as remarkable for their agreeable fidelity to nature as for their brilliancy of production and their economy of cost'.
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1868
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Madame Sidney Pratten (Catharina Josepha Pratten (née Pelzer))
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1869
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1870s
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1870s
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by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1872
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The Jury at the Tichborne Criminal Trial
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1873
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by Herbert Watkins
albumen print
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by Herbert Watkins
photogravure, mid 19th century
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by Butterworth and Heath, after Herbert Watkins
wood engraving, (1858)
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after Herbert Watkins
mixed-method engraving, (1858)
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probably after Herbert Watkins
mezzotint, (circa 1859)
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by Richard James Lane, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by John Mitchell, after Herbert Watkins
lithograph, published 1 August 1861
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by Joseph Brown, after Herbert Watkins
stipple engraving, 1870s
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by William Henry Mote, after a photograph by Herbert Watkins
stipple engraving, published 1870
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published by The Illustrated Review, after a photograph by Herbert Watkins
wood engraving, published 3 April 1873
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by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk
by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite
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Elizabeth Crawford
13 April 2016, 09:58
Quite by chance I found out a little more about the final fate of Herbert Watkins - see post on my website - http://tinyurl.com/z63lll3 .