[Portrait of a Seated Elderly Woman]

Creator

Daguerreotypist · 1818–1891

As one of the earliest daguerreotypists in London, William Edward Kilburn became "Her Majesty's Daguerreotypist" in 1846 and was engaged to photograph the royal family for six years. Aristocrats and members of high society admired and purchased his work, which was often finely hand-colored. He exhibited photographs at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851 and two years later patented a stereoscopi