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Lock, Samuel Robert
(1822-1894)Portrait of a woman

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Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Portrait of a woman. Ca. 1853-54. Hand-colored salted paper print, mounted behind a metal oval window mat in a contemporary leather case with velvet lining. 14 x 11 cm. Gilt-stamped on front cover: “Lock. Photographic Artists, 100 Quadrant, Regent St.”

In the early 1850s, Samuel Lock worked as a miniature painter, transforming talbotype portraits into colored likenesses. In September 1856, he joined George Whitfield, who had recently opened a photographic portrait studio in London’s Regent Street, to form Lock & Whitfield. The especially fine hand-coloring of the present portrait demonstrates Lock’s skill in combining photography with miniature painting.