Henry White (photographer)

Henry White (1819–1903) was a London lawyer who was also recognized as one of Britain's most gifted landscape photographers.

Common subjects were cottages, mills, and fields, as well as closeup views of foliage and other images of nature.

[1] He was prolific exhibitor, showing at least 237 photographs in the eight years from 1855[9] and meeting with considerable praise; he won the highest medal at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris[1] and his landscape photographs and won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Brussels in 1856.

The family in the photograph is almost certainly his own, and he has carefully balanced his desire to faithfully record elaborate details with broad atmospheric effects.

[1] White died at his home, 9 Campden Hill Gardens, Kensington on 28 November 1903 and is buried in a family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery close to the grave of another celebrated Victorian landscape photographer, Francis Bedford.