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(1897).

Biography

He was born Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde at

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on 30 August 1838. He was the son of Doctor Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde Sr. and Jeannette Wilhelmina Lasserre.Birth certificate
at Zierikzee (top right) In 1850 his family emigrated to the United States and he later served in the

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. He emigrated to England in 1870. He set up his photographic studio at 182

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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 publicised his photo corrector ( Rectograph) which is said to have "caused a stir in the world of photography".

References

External links

Photographs by Henry Van der Weyde
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