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I hope tou can shed a light and share your though and ideas with me. Thankyou!
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I'm afraid that I have little to add at this stage, other than Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester (1776 -1857) died on 30th April 1857, as the caption describes her as the "late" Duchess her image was added to that page after that date (though obviously the photo predates that). The RCT have an oil painting of her in a similar pose.
and then there is this photo next to the late Duchess of Gloucester and lady Newbury , also with writing which I can't make out unfortunately
And a Claudet daguerreotype of her with Queen Victoria. https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/36/collection/2932493/queen-v...
There appears to be an indistict photographer's name caprioned under the Lady Newbury Lock image and a partial address, "Newcastle U. L."?; if so this is probably Newcastle-Under-Lyme in Staffordshire.
she looks like a very young Julia Jackson
the photo from dillwynn here reminded me of the photo which is incl...
this photo has a name written on the back (BATT)
Thankyou very much for the feedback. I was also thinking that maybe the duchess and lady were added in the album as a keepsake, not as a relative maybe? I have actually found the glass plate online from that photo of the late duchess.
but maybe the region there is where the rest of the photos were taken.
Do you perhaps recognize the photographers style from that region/time in the other photos?
its definitely a series of photos from one estate/family. Same people/ same locations (door/backdrop)
rhankyou again
Hello Dagmar
The initials before the surname Batt could be W F. The sitter is too old to be the solicitor William Forster Batt of Abergavenny (1813-1878: https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2021/05/456-batt-of-gresham-hal...) but perhaps the portrait was printed for him.
Lady Newbury Lock is surprisingly hard to trace. If her photographer was Dr Barnes of Newcastle under Lyme, he may have been the physician George Barnes who married Elizabeth Frances Smyth née Bridges at St Pancras (London) in 1860. They were living at Wrington in Somerset by 1871.
Captioned on the same page as that lady is Mr Arnot [inventor?] of the Patent Stove, although research by the CIBSE Heritage Group (http://www.hevac-heritage.org/victorian_engineers/arnott/arnott.htm) has found that the scientist Dr Neil Arnott (1788-1874) failed to patent his invention in 1838. His buttoned waistcoat shows that the lateral inversion of a daguerreotype by Jabez Hogg is uncorrected in the National Portrait Gallery's engraving from the Medical Circular (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw35114/Neil-Arn...).