Lot Essay
An unusually complete and well-presented society portrait album, compiled by a member of the Van der Weyer family in 1862, with thirty-four cartes by Silvy and others by leading international portrait photographers including Brady, Hennah & Kent, Charles Watkins, Hills & Saunders, Thomas Rodger, Bingham (Paris), T.R. Williams, Vernon Heath, McLean, Melhuish & Haes, Abdullah Frères, Sarony, Disdéri, Mayall, Maull & Polyblank, Ghémar Frères, Kilburn, Caldesi, Blandford & Co., Mayer & Pierson, Jabez Hughes, D. Fredericks & Co., Joubert and others. Sitters, mainly British aristocracy, include members of the Stonor family, Lord and Lady Overstone, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Lord and Lady Taunton, the Duke of Westminster, Lord and Lady Clarendon, members of the Robeson, Suttie and Lister families and others, many identified as having visited New Lodge, Ascot. Other locations listed include Floors Castle and Langleybury.