Henry Maull

Henry Maull
Born1829
England, UK
Died1914 (aged 84–85)
England, UK
Known forPhotography

Henry Maull (1829–1914) was a British photographer who specialised in portraits of noted individuals.

Biography

Maull was born in Clerkenwell, London, as the son of a tradesman. He married Eliza (born Islington 1831) and became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1870.

Henry Maull formed several partnerships during his career:

John Young architect and surveyor, 1873
c. 1900 "Maull & Fox" portrait of Fanny Bullock Workman.

Maull operated studios at the following locations:

  1. 62 Cheapside, City of London, March 1865 – 1871.
  2. Tavistock House, 252 Fulham Road, Chelsea, March 1865 – 1869.
  3. 187a Piccadilly, Westminster, March 1865 – 1871.

Works

Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities

Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities was published from 1856 to 1859, featuring forty individual portraits with accompanying biographies by Herbert Fry, Pts 1–4; later parts by Edward Walford, issued to subscribers over a period of forty-one months and eventually all published in a single volume (London, W. Kent, 1859. Vol. I).

The issues published were:

  1. May 1856. Professor Owen
  2. June 1856. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
  3. July 1856. Robert Stephenson
  4. August 1856. John Arthur Roebuck
  5. September 1856. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
  6. October 1856. Edward Hodges Baily
  7. November 1856. Samuel Warren (British lawyer)
  8. December 1856. Professor Thomas Graham
  9. January 1857. Edward Matthew Ward
  10. February 1857. Lord Campbell
  11. March 1857. George Cruikshank
  12. April 1857. Rowland Hill
  13. May 1857. Sir William Fenwick Williams
  14. June 1857. William P. Frith
  15. July 1857. Cardinal Wiseman
  16. August 1857. Lord Brougham
  17. September 1857. Martin Farquhar Tupper
  18. October 1857. Michael Faraday
  19. November 1857. John Gibson (sculptor)
  20. December 1857. Earl of Rosse
  21. January 1858. Charles Kean
  22. February 1858. William Ewart Gladstone
  23. March 1858. Sir Archibald Alison
  24. April 1858. William Sterndale Bennett
  25. May 1858. David Livingstone
  26. June 1858. Earl of Aberdeen
  27. July 1858. Daniel Maclise
  28. August 1858. Lord Stanley
  29. September 1858. Dr Tait, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury)
  30. October 1858. Austen Henry Layard
  31. November 1858. Clarkson Stanfield
  32. December 1858. Lord Panmure
  33. January 1859. John Baldwin Buckstone
  34. February 1859. Comte de Montalambert
  35. March 1859. Samuel Lover
  36. April 1859. Lord John Manners
  37. May 1859. Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce
  38. June 1859. Sir John Lawrence
  39. July 1859. Lord Colchester
  40. August 1859. Archbishop of Canterbury John Bird Sumner

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Maull Portrait Photograph Collection". The Royal Society. Retrieved 10 September 2007.[permanent dead link]
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "PhotoLondon biography". Retrieved 29 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ London Gazette, 1865, p. 2059.
  4. 1 2 3 "Maull & Polyblank". Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
  5. 1 2 "House of Commons Library Photograph Albums". U.K. Parliament Archives. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  6. ↑ John Hannavy, Encyclopaedia of 19th Century Photography, London: Routledge, 2013, p. 905.
  7. ↑ London Gazette, 1928, p. 7493.
  8. ↑ Maull & Polyblank (1860–69). "58 Studio portrait photographs of Victorian scientists, engineers, explorers etc". Science Museum Group. 1980-2 Science Museum Group Collection Online. Retrieved 5 September 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  9. ↑ Christine Woollett (9 January 2007). "The Maull photographic portrait collection held at The Royal Society". Notes Rec. R. Soc. 61: 69–74. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2006.0169. S2CID 145084311. Retrieved 10 September 2007. [dead link]
  10. ↑ OCLC 14022227

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