James Lafayette

James Lafayette

James Lafayette was the pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923).Anon. (1990).] He was a late Victorian and Edwardian portrait photographer, and managing director from 1898 to 1923 of a company specialising in society photographs, Lafayette Ltd.

In 1887, he became the first Irish photographer to be granted the royal warrant.Meadows (2004)]

Collections

While thousands of images were credited to Lafayette studios, only those 649 photographs which were registered for copyright bear his signature as author. These are now held in the Public Record Office, in Kew, London. The Lafayette Collection at London's Victoria & Albert Museum consists of 3,500 glass plate and celluloid negatives. Meadows (1990).] A further collection of 30,000 to 40,000 nitrate negatives is at London's National Portrait Gallery. Further collections are in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; and in private hands in Dublin.

Notes and references

* Anon, 1990. V&A. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/back_dev.php Brief history of the Lafayette Studio] Retrieved: 5 January 2008. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
* Meadows, Jane. 1990. V&A. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/back_biog.php James Lafayette biography] Retrieved: 5 January 2008. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
* Meadows, Jane. 2004. "Lauder, James Stack (1853–1923)", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford: Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65307 Online edition] Retrieved: 6 January 2008.

External links

* [http://lafayette.150m.com/ The Lafayette Negative Archive] This link has been disabled due to a threat of legal action by SEJM Meadows


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