Edward Bracher

Edward Bracher (1823 – 31 May 1887) was a pioneering British photographer based in Oxford, England.

Bracher was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He had photographic premises at 26 High Street, Oxford from 1852 to 1863. He worked mainly on portraits and commissioned landscapes, advertising as the "Oxford University Portrait Rooms" with "Portraits takes on Ivory, Paper, and Glass" as well as "Gentlemen's Mansions & Churches Photographed". Bracher lived over the premises with his wife and two children.

Henry Taunt, later another well-known photographer, joined Bracher at the age of 14 as a member of staff in 1856.

In 1863, Bracher sold his business to the Oxford booksellers and stationers, Wheeler and Day. The business transferred to 106 High Street, but Taunt stayed at the original premises as photographic manager for a brief period.

Bracher died at his brother's residence in Sedgehill, Reading, aged 64.

References

  1. ↑ Photographers in the High, High Street, Oxford, UK.
  2. ↑ 1861 England Census
  3. ↑ Stephanie Jenkins, Oxford Photographers, Oxfordshire-L Archives, 21 February 2004.
  4. ↑ Henry W Taunt: the business Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, English Heritage, UK.
  5. ↑ Oxford University Portrait Rooms, Alden's Illustrated Family Miscellany and Oxford Monthly Record, Vol. XI, No. 122, October 1864.
  6. 1 2 The High, Oxford: 24–31 Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, High Street, Oxford Archived 2010-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, UK.
  7. ↑ Bryan Brown (editor), The England of Henry Taunt: Victorian photographer. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1973, page x. ISBN 978-0-7100-7542-0.
  8. ↑ Graham Diprose and Jeff Robins, The River Thames Revisited: In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt. Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007, page 12. ISBN 978-0-7112-2765-1.
  9. ↑ "Deaths". Reading Mercury. 4 June 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  10. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995