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Name
  
Henry Maull


Henry Maull

Died
  
1914, Brighton, United Kingdom

Henry Maull (1829–1914) was a British photographer who specialised in portraits of noted individuals.

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Biography

Maull was born in Clerkenwell as the son of a tradesman. He married Eliza (b Islington 1831) and became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1870.

Henry Maull formed several partnerships during his career:

  • 1856-March 8, 1865: Maull & Polyblank in partnership with George Henry Polyblank. Other sources say it was established in 1854.
  • 1866-1872: Maull, Henry & Co
  • 1873-1878: Maull & Co
  • 1879-1885: Maull & Fox, in partnership with John Fox (1832 - 1907). The studio continued under the original name by others and moved to 200 Gray's Inn Road. It was officially closed on October 26, 1928 and the final creditors' meeting was held on November 30, 1928. The firm was taken over by the Graphic Photo Union, which in turn was taken over by Kemsley Newspapers.

    • Maull operated studios at the following locations:

    1. 62 Cheapside, City of London March 1865 - 1871.
    2. Tavistock House, 252 Fulham Road, Chelsea March 1865 - 1869.
    3. 187a Piccadilly, Westminster March 1865 - 1871.

    Works

  • Portraits of Members of Parliament by Maull and Polyblank, 163 photographs
  • Portraits of noted individuals, which were frequently published as engravings in the Illustrated London News
  • Photographs of Fellows from the mid-nineteenth century until the early twentieth century.

    • Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities

    Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities was published from 1856 to 1859, featuring forty individual portraits with accompanying biographies by Herbert Fry, Pts 1 - 4; later parts by Edward Walford, issued to subscribers over a period of forty-one months and eventually all published in a single volume London, W. Kent, 1859. Vol I

    The issues published were:

    1. May 1856. Professor Owen
    2. June 1856. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
    3. July 1856. Robert Stephenson
    4. August 1856. John Arthur Roebuck
    5. September 1856. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
    6. October 1856. Edward Hodges Baily
    7. November 1856. Samuel Warren (British lawyer)
    8. December 1856. Professor Thomas Graham
    9. January 1857. Edward Matthew Ward
    10. February 1857. Lord Campbell
    11. March 1857. George Cruikshank
    12. April 1857. Rowland Hill
    13. May 1857. Sir William Fenwick Williams
    14. June 1857. William P. Frith
    15. July 1857. Cardinal Wiseman
    16. August 1857. Lord Brougham
    17. September 1857. Martin Farquhar Tupper
    18. October 1857. Michael Faraday
    19. November 1857. John Gibson (sculptor)
    20. December 1857. Earl of Rosse
    21. January 1858. Charles Kean
    22. February 1858. William Ewart Gladstone
    23. March 1858. Sir Archibald Alison
    24. April 1858. William Sterndale Bennett
    25. May 1858. David Livingstone
    26. June 1858. Earl of Aberdeen
    27. July 1858. Daniel Maclise
    28. August 1858. Lord Stanley
    29. September 1858. Dr Tait, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury)
    30. October 1858. Austen Henry Layard
    31. November 1858. Clarkson Stanfield
    32. December 1858. Lord Panmure
    33. January 1859. John Baldwin Buckstone
    34. February 1859. Comte de Montalambert
    35. March 1859. Samuel Lover
    36. April 1859. Lord John Manners
    37. May 1859. Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce
    38. June 1859. Sir John Lawrence
    39. July 1859. Lord Colchester
    40. August 1859. Archbishop of Canterbury John Bird Sumner

    References

    Henry Maull Wikipedia
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