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Unknown boy

by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
platinotype cabinet card, 1890s
5 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in. (144 mm x 100 mm) image size
Given by Robert R. Steele, 1939
Photographs Collection
NPG x4908

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Current affairs

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, publishes In Darkest England, in which he compares the supposedly 'civilised' England with 'Darkest Africa'. A critique of the degenerate state of society, Booth also proposed social welfare schemes to alleviate the sufferings of the urban poor.
The world's first electric underground railway opens to the public in London, passing under the Thames and linking the City of London and Stockwell.

Art and science

William Morris founds the Kelmscott Press, a revival of art and craft techniques of book printing. Publications included The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1896), with decorative designs and typeface by Morris and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones.
Vincent Van Gogh dies after shooting himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray first appears in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .

International

Cecil Rhodes, organiser of the diamond-mining De Beers Consolidated Mines, becomes premier of Cape Colony as part of his expansionist aims in South Africa.
In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck.
An international anti-slavery conference is held in Brussels, leading to the signing of a treaty by all the major maritime nations covering action to be taken against the trade in Africa and suppression of it by sea.

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Scott Thomas Buckle

02 February 2017, 15:42

Is this really a portrait of Philip Burne-Jones? The sitter does not resemble any of the other known photographic portraits of Philip Burne-Jones. The photograph bears the address of "70 Mortimer St", where Henry Herschel Hay Cameron operated from the mid 1880s, suggesting a date later than the given one of "circa 1870". The lettering of the platinotype cabinet card matches another from The Cameron Studio from 1893 (NPG Ax13951). Philip Burne-Jones was born in 1861; if the photograph is much later, (the style and medium of the photograph would suggest this) then the sitter is more likely to have been born c1880.