HENRY VAN DER WEYDE
Born: 30th August 1838 - Zierikzee, Netherlands
Died: 1924 - Temple Fortune Health Centre, London, United Kingdom
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE
Henry Van der Weyde was a Dutch-born English painter and photographer, best known for his photographic portraits of the late 19th century. His is considered a photographic pioneer in the use of electric light in photography. Amongst his portraits are architect William Burges (c.1880), Alexandra, Princess of Wales, A.E. Housman, actresses Mary Anderson (1887) and Dorothy Dene (1880s), Sir Edwin Arnold, bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (1889) and explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1897).
BIOGRAPHYHe was born Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde at Zierikzee in the Netherlands on 30th August 1838. He was the son of Doctor Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde Sr. and Jeannette Wilhelmina Lasserre. In 1850 his family emigrated to the United States and he later served in the American Civil War. He emigrated to England in 1870. He set up his photographic studio at 182 Regent Street in London in 1877, and began using the logo "The Van der Weyde Light". That year he became the first photographer to install and take portraits by electric light which permitted him to make many portraits in a short period of time. A founding member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood, in 1892 he publicized his photo corrector (Rectograph) which is said to have "caused a stir in the world of photography".
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1881
PORTRAIT OF ARCHITECT WILLIAM BURGES
Watercolor, body color and gum arabic over albumen print laid down on card
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1881
QUEEN ALEXANDRA (1844-1925)
Queen of Edward VII
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1881
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1887
MARY ANDERSON
Born - Mary Antoinette Anderson
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1885
DOROTHY DENE
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1885
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
English poet and journalist
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1885
EUGEN SANDOW
born Friedrich Wilhelm Müller - German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1890
FRIDTJOF WEDEL-JARLSBERG NANSEN
Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1880
ROSE NORREYS
Actress
HENRY VAN DER WEYDE c.1880
LILLIAN SECCOMBE
Actress