About Edward Wyllie
Lived 1848 – 1911 (aged 63). Edward Wyllie was an American photographer.
Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848 – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer.
Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy. He moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds. Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.
He died in London in 1911.
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Who was Edward Wyllie?
British medium and spirit photographer (1848-1911)
When was Edward Wyllie born?
Edward Wyllie was born on 28 January 1848.
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Edward Wyllie died on 6 March 1911.
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Edward Wyllie was a photographer.
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Edward Wyllie was American.
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