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Earl of Ashburnham

Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville

Date: 1860s
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Scottish
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portrait of an elderly Caucasian man sporting a thick, white beard and wearing possibly a shawl around his neck.

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Creator

Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville

Photographer · 1835–1906

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Ronald Leslie Melville, the eleventh Earl of Leven and Melville, was an aristocratic amateur photographer and member of the Amateur Photographic Association, to which he was elected in 1866. Well-known in London as head of an Anglo-American banking house and director of the Bank of England, he pursued photography simply as a pleasurable pastime. He produced theatrical *tableaux vivant* and genre p