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5 unusual facts about Alexander Bassano


A.B. Imeson

The National Portrait Gallery in London, United Kingdom, holds a portrait of Imeson by Alexander Bassano.

Charles Armytage-Moore

She was considered a great beauty of her day and photographed by Alexander Bassano (1829–1913), the leading high society portrait photographer in Victorian London.

Edmund Bartley-Denniss

His 1919 photographic portrait by Bassano is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG x83602).

Ernest Wedderburn

A 1946 photographic portrait of him by the Bassano studio, taken in his capacity as Chairman of the General Council, is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet

The UK's National Portrait Gallery includes three photographic portraits of Sir John Keane taken by Bassano's studio on 30 March 1920.


Dover Street

In the 1920s many notable photographers were based in Dover Street including Paul Tanqueray, Hugh Cecil and Alexander Bassano.


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