Artist

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

Portrait of John Jabez Edwin Mayall

English, 1813–1901

John Jabez Edwin Mayall was an English Romanticism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He also captured other famous people such as Charles Dickens and Karl Marx. His photograph of "Sergeant Dawson and his daughter" has been considered one of the most important photographs in history.

Collections represented

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