This photograph - held to be a photograph of Charlotte Brontë (died 1855) taken during her honeymoon in 1854 - is by Sir Emery Walker, died July 22d, 1933.
wikipedia:CharlotteBronte
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The photograph is believed to have been taken during a serene period in Charlotte's life—about the time of her marriage in 1854, at age 38, to the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls. Charlotte's happiness was brief; she died nine months after the marriage, as a result of complications of a pregnancy. The photo—a glass-copy negative made by Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) some years after the original was taken—is thought to be a companion piece to a honeymoon photo and is marked with Charlotte's name on the back. It surfaced in early October at an exhibition of family portraits that were on loan from the National Portrait Gallery to the Brontë museum, which is located at the family home in Haworth, Yorkshire. The Gallery had discovered the picture when members of the staff belatedly got around to cataloging a collection of glass negatives, which they had rescued from the Walker estate in 1956. (A flood in the basement fortunately speeded up the work.)
In 1986, the Bronte Society received a bequest of Mrs. Seton Gordon, the granddaughter of George Smith, publisher of Charlotte. She said her grandfather, eager to collect memorabilia from the authors he published, had accumulated letters, drawings and manuscripts. Forgotten among this collection was a small photo-card in sepia on the back, the words "Within a year of CB's death and accompanied by a letter from Emery Walker dated January 2, 1918, which showed clearly that it s'agisait of the original glass negative that is at the NPG.
wikipedia:CharlotteBronte
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http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089747,00.html
The photograph is believed to have been taken during a serene period in Charlotte's life—about the time of her marriage in 1854, at age 38, to the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls. Charlotte's happiness was brief; she died nine months after the marriage, as a result of complications of a pregnancy. The photo—a glass-copy negative made by Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) some years after the original was taken—is thought to be a companion piece to a honeymoon photo and is marked with Charlotte's name on the back. It surfaced in early October at an exhibition of family portraits that were on loan from the National Portrait Gallery to the Brontë museum, which is located at the family home in Haworth, Yorkshire. The Gallery had discovered the picture when members of the staff belatedly got around to cataloging a collection of glass negatives, which they had rescued from the Walker estate in 1956. (A flood in the basement fortunately speeded up the work.)In 1986, the Bronte Society received a bequest of Mrs. Seton Gordon, the granddaughter of George Smith, publisher of Charlotte. She said her grandfather, eager to collect memorabilia from the authors he published, had accumulated letters, drawings and manuscripts. Forgotten among this collection was a small photo-card in sepia on the back, the words "Within a year of CB's death and accompanied by a letter from Emery Walker dated January 2, 1918, which showed clearly that it s'agisait of the original glass negative that is at the NPG.
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