Van der Weyde Studios

RA Collection: People and Organisations

An American painter who developed an electric lighting system for photography, Henry Van Der Weyde founded his studios at 182 Regent St in 1877. The use of electric light made it possible not only to take many more photographs in a short space of time but also to produced fashionable society portraits at night, with the sitters in evening dress. He exhibited at the Paris International exhibition in 1878 and may have also opened a studio there.

Van Der Weyde was also one of the founding members of the photographic group, the 'Linked Ring Brotherhood'.

Works associated with Van der Weyde Studios in the RA Collection

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From: Van der Weyde Studios

Luke Fildes, ca. 1882

Albumen print mounted on brown card with printed name
From: Van der Weyde Studios

Henry Woods, ca. 1882

Albumen print mounted on brown card with printed name