William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), married Princess Marie Amelie of Baden in 1843. The Duchess was the daughter of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Emperor Napoleon I.
Carte de visite by André-Adolph-Eugène Disdéri.
“J.A.L., Paris — 1858,” perhaps a member of the Hamilton or Schuyler families of New York. A carte de visite by the man who patented the process in 1854: André-Adolph-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889). His rival Nadar [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820-1910] lamented “the appearance of Disdéri and [the] Carte de Visite... It spelled disaster. Either you had to succumb – that is to say, follow the trend – or resign.”
