About Ernest Walter Histed
Lived 1863 – 1947 (aged 83–84). Ernest Walter Histed was a British and American photographer.
Ernest Walter Histed (December 1863 – 27 May 1947) was an English-American photographer.
Early life Histed was born in Brighton in December 1863.
Career Histed went to United States and created a successful business in Chicago, and then in Pittsburgh. He returned to England to set up a studio first in New Bond Street and then in Baker Street, London. In 1898 he made portraits of H. Rider Haggard, Clara Butt and the Empress of Germany, the last by command of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle. He also photographed Royal Academicians, leading actors for The Candid Friend and Pope Pius X. Then he returned to New York, and operated a studio on Fifth Avenue. He moved to Palm Beach, Florida and continued to work until 1934. The largest collection of his work is held by the Museum of the City of New York.
Personal life and death In 1906, he married Lena Belle Simpson. They had two children.
Histed died there on 27 May 1947.
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British-born American photographer (1863–1947)
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Ernest Walter Histed was born in 1863 in Brighton.
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Ernest Walter Histed died in 1947 in Palm Beach.
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Ernest Walter Histed was British and American.
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