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John Jabez Edwin Mayall

(1813-1901), Photographer

Artist associated with 509 portraits
Born in 1813, John Jabez Edwin Mayall, né Jabez Meal, opened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia in the early 1840s. He soon moved to Britain where he helped to establish the American Daguerreotype Association in London. In 1851 he set up his own studio in London, photographing Queen Victoria and members of the royal family throughout the 1860s. Mayall became famous with his cartes-de-visite of the Queen and H.R.H. the Prince Consort, which sold tens of thousands of copies. Mayall left London for Brighton in the mid-1860s where he continued his photography and became involved in local politics. He died in London in 1901. The National Portrait Gallery holds more than 160 of his photographs.

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Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Bt, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG x38977

Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Bt

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x38977

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Queen Victoria, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax46703

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Queen Victoria

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, May 1860
NPG Ax46703

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax46702

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
hand-coloured albumen carte-de-visite, 1861 (May 1860)
NPG Ax46702

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax7263

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen print, 1 December 1861 (May 1860)
NPG Ax7263

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax46157

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s (May 1860)
NPG Ax46157

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax46271

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, May 1860
NPG Ax46271

Walter Kerr Hamilton, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall - NPG Ax47078

Walter Kerr Hamilton

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax47078

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