Lock & Whitfield
(active 1856-1894), PhotographersArtist associated with 627 portraits
Samuel Lock was an artist who in the early 1850s was converting talbotype portraits into painted miniatures. In September 1856, he joined forces with George Whitfield, who had recently opened a photographic portrait studio on Regent Street in London. The firm established a branch studio on Kings Road, Brighton in 1864 and are best remembered for the series of woodbury type portraits published in Men of Mark.
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot de Malahide
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Sir (Henry) Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Bt
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Père Hyacinthe (Charles Jean Marie Loyson)
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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James Macnaghten McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Magheramorne
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
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Jimmy Carreras
13 May 2018, 00:51
Samuel Robert Lock 4 x GGF
Born in St Marylebone 1822.
Christened September 27 1822.
Married Harriet Turner Moore October 20 1852 in St Pancras.
STUDIOS:
1. 100 Regent Street, Westminster 1853 - 1854.
2. 178 Regent Street, Westminster 1855 - August 1856.
Succeeded by Lock & Whitfield.
1855: photographer living at 9 Bernard Street, Regent's Park Road, St Pancras.
Exhibited at RA 1849 - 1854 (including self - portrait 1851).
Educated at King's College.
Travelled to South Australia 1839, employed as artist in Government Survey Office; visited Tasmania & Pacific Islands.
Self - taught miniature painter.
On return to England, joined Nikolaas Henneman as a photographic painter; later opened Regent Street studio for miniature painting, converting Talbotypes into miniatures. Joined by George Carpe Whitfield in 1856.
Principal partner in Woodbury Company; opened studio in Brighton 1863 - 1884.
'The Permanent Printing Co.' and later by the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Co. (the two were possibly operating in parallel). The partnership between Walter Bentley Woodbury, George Corpe Whitefield, Joseph Cundall and Samuel Robert Lock which formed the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Co. was dissolved in December 1876 when Woodbury left the partnership, the others carried on the business. The firm was taken over by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1891.
Samuel Lock took up residence in Brighton in 1877, but died 4 years later on 9th May 1881
6 month pleasure trip in Europe & Middle East, starting in late 1880, caught bronchitis in Italy.
Died in Hampstead May 9 1881.