Herbert Watkins
George Herbert Watkins (12 July 1828 – 1916) was an English portrait photographer.
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- Name
- Herbert Watkins
- Born
- 12 July 1828
- Birthplace
- Worcester, England
- Died
- 1916
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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George Herbert Watkins (12 July 1828 – 1916) was an English portrait photographer.
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Herbert Watkins (1828–1916) was a photographer, of British nationality. The photographer was born in Crowle. Herbert Watkins worked in Regent Street. Works are held at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Library of Wales and National Portrait Gallery.
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• Name — Herbert Watkins • Born — 12 July 1828 • Birthplace — Worcester, England • Died — 1916 • Occupation — Photographer
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George Herbert Watkins was born on 12 July 1828 in Worcester, England. He opened his studio in London in the mid-1850s. He published a series of portraits with printed biographies, titled "National Gallery of Photographic Portraits". Watkins took a famous picture of Charles Dickens sitting at his desk. Watkins pioneered mixed media photo-caricature carte de visites. He died in 1916. He has a display at the National Portrait Gallery. He has 193 portraits in total at the gallery.
Charles Morehead. Lithograph by R. J. Lane after H. Watkins., by Herbert Watkins
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Herbert Watkins is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation photographer.
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