Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848 – 6 March 1911) was a British

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and spirit photographer. Wyllie was born in

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, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy.''1851 England Census'' He moved to

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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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyllie, Edward 1848 births 1911 deaths 19th-century British photographers Artists from Kolkata British emigrants to the United States British fraudsters English spiritual mediums