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Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848 – 6 March 1911) was a British
medium
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and
spirit photographer.
Wyllie was born in
Calcutta
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, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy.
[''1851 England Census''] He moved to
California
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in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds. Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.
[ Stein, Gordon. (1996). ''The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal''. Prometheus Books. p. 517. ]
He died in London in 1911.
References
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1848 births
1911 deaths
19th-century British photographers
Artists from Kolkata
British emigrants to the United States
British fraudsters
English spiritual mediums