John & Charles Watkins

[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of the English painter John Everet MILLAIS
John & Charles Watkins, London 1865 (n.d., but circa), 6.5 x 9.6 cm, photograph
Original photograph on albumin paper showing the painter John Everet Millais in visiting card format, laid down on card from the studio of John & Charles Watkins, marked on reverse.
Pencil annotation to verso.
A standing portrait with top hat.

Original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format, mounted on card.
Manuscript annotations on verso of photograph. Photographer's stamp on verso.
Rare full-length photograph, seated at a table, of the writer at the end of his life. Dickens died in 1870, at the age of 58. George Herbert Watkins was responsible for several photographs of the writer after 1860.

Photographic portrait of Charles Dickens
Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card. Manuscript annotations to verso, most notably “Romi”. Robert Miquel, journalist and French “chronicler of the unusual” kept a shop at 15 rue de Seine, immortalized by Robert Doisneau in his series La Vitrine de Romi.
We have found only one other copy of this photograph, at the Museum of London.