Some years later, the Prince of Wales by W. & D. Downey of 61 Ebury Street (Eaton Square) in London; the mount appears to belong to the branch in Newcastle-on-Tyne, located at 9 Eldon Square. The firm’s founders were the brothers William Downey (1829-1915) and Daniel Downey (1831-1881); they occupied the Eldon Square address from 1863, and William opened the London branch at 57 and 61 Ebury Street in 1872.
HRH The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was the first member of the British royal family in several centuries to marry a subject of the crown, albeit a grand one: in 1871, she married John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914), from 1900 the 9th Duke of Argyll.
HRH The Prince Consort (born HSH Prince Franz August Karl Albrecht Emanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1819-1861) married his first cousin Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in 1840. His carte de visite is by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (born Jabez Meal, 1813-1901); hers is by Ghémar Frères [Louis-Joseph Ghémar (1819-1873) and his half-brother Léon Louis Auverleaux] in Brussels.
Mayall took the first set of cartes de visite of the British royal family in 1860.
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.
Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), who married Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (from 1901 King Edward VII), Queen Victoria’s eldest son, in 1863.
Carte de visite by the Danish court photographer [Peter Ludvig] Rudolf Striegler (1816-1876).
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1876 Empress of India (1819-1901).
Carte de visite by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (Jabez Meal, 1813-1901).
[Friedrich Wilhelm] Ludwig IV Karl, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt (1837-1892), Queen Victoria’s son-in-law and the great-great-grandfather of King Charles III.
CDV by Silvy, stamped at Silvy’s Crystal Palace stall.
George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870), British Foreign Secretary 1853-58, 1865-66, and 1868-70, and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who tried and failed to rouse British support for the Irish during the famine years.
CDV by Camille Silvy, with a stamp from Silvy’s stall at the Crystal Palace.
Annotated "Alice” in one hand; “Darling Lad. 1873. Not to be taken away” in another.
Carte de visite by Hills & Saunders, the studio founded by Robert Hills (1821-1882) at Oxford in 1856; John Henry Saunders (1836-1890) became a partner in 1860. The studio had branches in London; Cambridge as well as Oxford; Eton College and Harrow School; and the military academies at Aldershot and Sandhurst. Today, only the branch at Eton survives.
Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine (1790-1869), poet and statesman, a member of the Académie française from 1829, and briefly French Foreign Minister during the 1848 uprising. His most famous work was his first collection of poems: Les Méditations Poétiques (1820).
