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
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
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by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x21317
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x21687
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x4837
Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
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Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano)
by Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate collodion glass negative, mid 1860s
NPG x150665
Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano)
by Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate collodion glass negative, mid 1860s
NPG x150666
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
NPG x28071
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford and 2nd Baron Clermont
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s
NPG x28157
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Alexander Bassano, and Clarkington & Co (Charles Clarkington), and Joseph Richard James, and Horatio Nelson King, and Camille Silvy, and possibly Leonida Caldesi, and Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau, and Thomas Cranfield, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x137000
George Henry Conyngham, 3rd Marquess Conyngham
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1864
NPG Ax5094
Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, mid 1860s-mid 1870s
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Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano)
after Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate film copy negative, late 1860s
NPG x150655
Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano)
after Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate film copy negative, late 1860s
NPG x150656
Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano)
after Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate film copy negative, late 1860s
NPG x150658
Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano)
by Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate collodion glass negative, late 1860s
NPG x150667
Camilla Teresa ('Lily') Serjeant (née Bassano)
by Alexander Bassano
quarter-plate collodion glass negative, late 1860s
NPG x150668
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, circa late 1860s
NPG x76791
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate collodion glass negative, early 1870s
NPG x127665
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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