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From: "Genealogy" <>
Subject: RE: Van de Weyde process
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:53:44 +0100
In-Reply-To: <82.16e14736.2e83d0a6@aol.com>

The only process of which we are aware is H van der Weyde's use of electric
light for shortening exposure time but since photography was such a rapidly
developing field perhaps there were other contributions.
From the National Portrait Gallery site -
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp08166&role=art comes
the following:
"Henry Van der Weyde (1838-1924)
Artist associated with 3 portraits
A founder member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of those 'who delight in
photography soley for it' artistic possibilities', he was a painter turned
professional portrait photographer. In 1892 he publicised his photo
corrector (Rectograph) causing a stir in the world of photography. In 1877
Van der Weyde became the first photographer to install and take portraits by
electric light allowing him to take a lot of portraits in a short period of
time. The light was provided by a Crossley gas engine which drove a Siemens
dynamo, which in turn fed an arc light in a five-foot reflector. Owing to
lack of money the patent of this was never completed."
Rosemary & Stan Rodliffe


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