For a monograph on Frederic Shields I am interested in the English Picture Publishing Company formed c. 1875 by Frederic Shields, Charles Rowley and George Milner. The company was formed specifically for the' photography of the work of British artists.' Shields learned about photography from his fellow Mancunian Lachlan McLachlan beginning in the 1860s. (From 1873-5 Shields became entangled in McLachlan's "Royal Group" photo. His drawings of the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle which was to be the setting for the photo are in the V&A). From c. 1870 Shields supervised the photographic reproduction of Dante Gabriel Rossett's paintings. I would be most grateful for any suggestions regarding biogarphical source material for any of the above.
With thanks in advance...
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Thank you so much for this. I'm imaginging Shields must have found himself in a business/legal controversy he, with his idealistic and myopic aesthetic focus, would have been distressed to have been involved in.
Re Rossetti, I found this, 2 March 1883.
https://archive.org/details/photographicnews27unse/page/137/mode/1u...