William Frederick Lake Price
William Frederick Lake Price (1810–1896) was an English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography. Lake Price was trained as a topographical and architectural artist by the architect Augustus Charles Pugin. Lake Price exhibited his paintings and watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society.
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William Frederick Lake Price
William Frederick Lake Price · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1810 · London.
- Died
- 1896 · London Borough of Lewisham.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- photographer · painter
- Languages
- English
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William Frederick Lake Price (1810–1896) was an English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography. Lake Price was trained as a topographical and architectural artist by the architect Augustus Charles Pugin. Lake Price exhibited his paintings and watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society.
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In the 1850s he joined the London Photographic Society and the Photographic Exchange Club of London. In 1858, many of his photographic portraits were published in Portraits of Eminent British Artists. • Illustration — The grave of William Frederick Lake Price in the churchyard of St Peter's, Kent
The recorded working language is English. Work by William Frederick Lake Price is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Harry Ransom Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale Center for British Art and J. Paul Getty Museum.
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1810
William Frederick Lake Price born at London.
1896
William Frederick Lake Price died at London Borough of Lewisham.
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William Frederick Lake Price is recorded as photographer and painter. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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National Gallery of Canada, Harry Ransom Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale Center for British Art
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