Alexander Bassano
(1829-1913), PhotographerSitter in 4 portraits
Artist associated with 2805 portraits
Born in London, Bassano received artistic training in the studios of painters Augustus Egg and William Beverley, and at Thomas Heatherley's Art School. He opened his first photographic studio in 1850 on Regent Street, London. In 1876 he moved to Old Bond Street, where the firm was located until 1921. The studio was large enough to accommodate an eighty-foot panoramic background scene mounted on rollers, which provided a variety of outdoor scenes or court backgrounds. Bassano retired in around 1903 and had reputedly earned £60,000 through portraiture. He married Adelaide Lancaster in 1850 and they had three children. He died aged eighty-four in Acton, London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate collodion glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x150672
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate collodion glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x150673
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1870s
NPG x17466
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95871
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95872
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95873
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95874
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95875
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein with her two eldest children
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95876
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein; Magdalen Wellesley (née Montagu)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95877
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein; Magdalen Wellesley (née Montagu)
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, mid 1870s
NPG x95878
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1874
NPG x74377
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn as a fairy prince
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, 22 July 1874
NPG x26135
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, circa 1874
NPG x6343
Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, 1874
NPG x197247
John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, 1874
NPG x197379
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn as a fairy prince
by Alexander Bassano
albumen cabinet card, 22 July 1874
NPG x197442
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn as a fairy prince
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 22 July 1874
NPG x95974
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn as a fairy prince
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 22 July 1874
NPG x95975
The children of King Edward VII
by Alexander Bassano
bromide press print, 1875
NPG x129650
Related People
- Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano) (daughter)
- Adelaide Rose Ainslie Bassano (née Lancaster) (wife)
- Clement George Alexander Bassano (son)
- Hermione Una Adelaide Camilla Gunton-Turner (née Serjeant) (granddaughter)
- Sybil Ainslie Ida Hanson (née Serjeant) (granddaughter)
- Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano) (daughter)
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