About William Edward Kilburn
Lived 1818 – 1891 (aged 72–73). William Edward Kilburn was a British photographer.
William Edward Kilburn (28 November 1818 – 11 December 1891) was an English photographer, noted for his pictures of the British Royal family.
Kilburn photographed the large Chartist rally at Kennington Common on 10 April 1848; this was one of the earliest photographs of a large crowd scene. Kilburn's photograph of the Kennington Chartist rally was rediscovered in the British Royal Collection in the 1980s after being thought lost. Kilburn made the first daguerreotype portraits of Queen Victoria and her family in April 1847.
Kilburn's studio was at 234 Regent Street, from where he produced his daguerreotypes.
Kilburn’s brother Douglas produced in Melbourne what are arguably the earliest daguerreotypes of Australian indigenous people.
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English photographer (1818-1891)
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William Edward Kilburn was born in 1818 in London.
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William Edward Kilburn died in 1891 in Great Britain.
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William Edward Kilburn was a photographer.
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