Henry Van der Weyde

Amongst his portraits are architect William Burges (c.1880), Alexandra, Princess of Wales,[1] A. E. Housman,[2] actresses Mary Anderson (1887) and Dorothy Dene (1880s), Sir Edwin Arnold, bodybuilder Eugen Sandow (1889) and explorer Fridtjof Nansen (1897).

He was born Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde at Zierikzee in the Netherlands on 30 August 1838.

He was the son of Doctor Pieter Hendrik van der Weijde Sr. and Jeannette Wilhelmina Lasserre.

He set up his photographic studio at 182 Regent Street in London in 1877, and began using the logo "The Van der Weyde Light".

[5] 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".