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Directory of Early Photographers in Suffolk - K - M
KEMP, William John
KERBY, Joseph, & Son
A cabinet print mount of the late 80s or very early 90s shows J Kerby & Son at 20 and 26 Tacket Street. Kerby & Son also had studios in Dovercourt & Harwich, according to Kelly's Essex, 1894. By 1888, Kerby was taking photographs by electric light - and was charging 50 per cent more for them than for portraits taken by daylight ('Ipswich Journal', 13th July 1888). A mount from the 1890s also advertises 'Pianos and musical instruments, 25 per cent less than any other house in the town'. See also Joseph Kirby, below. KERBY, Joseph
The same Joseph Kerby as listed above. Presence or absence of ‘& Son’ on a mount is probably not a helpful criterion for dating. LEGOOD, Jeremiah
Note: Gorleston was a Suffolk parish until the early 1800s when it became a part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. We have therefore included Gorleston photographers in both county listings. LEVERINGTON, Thomas
LEYNEEK, Andrew
LEYNEEK, H A
May well be the same as Andrew Leyneek, above. LIFFEN, James
WS1892 misspells his name as 'Liffin'. Paul Godfrey reports that a large display frame of Liffen's work was on show at a Gorleston barber's shop for many years. The contents of the frame showed Liffen as a recorder of local life as well as a studio photographer, and the probable date of some pictures suggests he was still active at the end of the century. He was a shoe- and boot-maker before taking up professional photography, and he ran a tobacconist's shop in later years. Liffen was born in Great Yarmouth in 1865 and died in Gorleston in 1937. Note: Gorleston was a Suffolk parish until the early 1800s when it became a part of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. We have therefore included Gorleston photographers in both county listings. LIMMER, E
LITTLEWOOD, E
MARTIN, James G
May well be the same as James Martyn, below. MARTINSON, H
MARTYN, James
MASON, J Winton
MATTHEWS Matthews (no first name or initial) is recorded by Heathcote at St Andrews Gardens, Bury, 1855. He seems quite likely to be the same as William Matthews, below. MATTHEWS, William
Mentioned in a 'Bury and Norwich Post' court report, 13th May 1862. He complained of being assaulted by a fellow-photographer, William Collings, in an altercation over damage to a borrowed lens. ('He seized me by the collar, and, with his fist bent, threatened to send my teeth down my throat.') See also Matthews, above. MAYHEW, Henry
METCALF, Charles T
According to Robb/Godfrey, Metcalf and others were looked down upon by the town's established photographers (Boughton, Jenkins, Wilson), who regarded them as a mere itinerants. Wilson's daughter is reported as saying they were not 'real photographers'. MILLER, John
An advertisement in the Beccles Paper, 6th January 1891, reads: 'Miller's Photographic Studio, Station Road. Open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Art Portraiture & Photography of every description.' A 'Miller' cabinet mount, referring to both Beccles and 14 King Street, Yarmouth, suggests a link between businesses and is probably evidence of a connection between John, of Beccles, and Wallace and Elizabeth, of Yarmouth (for whom, see the Norfolk directory). MILLIGAN, W
MILLS & Palmer
MILLS & Son
MILLS, Fitzroy John
MILLS, Frederick J
MILLS, William Edward
A surviving carte by W E Mills of Beccles has a distinctly 60s-ish look, which suggests either that he ran a rather old fashioned studio, or that he may have been in business earlier than yet found in trade directories. MIZON, Charles
A carte dating from, probably, the 1880s, gives Mizon's address as High Street, Haverhill. MONSON, Benjamin Heathcote relates that he was born at Colchester, Essex, in 1824 and was one of four photographer brothers. A writing master, Benjamin Monson had established a studio in Colchester by 1854, using the wet collodion process. He made occasional visits to localities other than Colchester, and in August 1855 he took rooms with Mr or Mrs Ruther, confectioner, Corn Hill, Bury, for a temporary studio. MONSON, Edward Falcon Street, Ipswich Heathcote relates that he was one of four photographer brothers and was born in 1822 at Colchester, Essex. He is described in KS1853 as ‘daguerreotype artist, land surveyor & writing master’. Edward Monson was the original daguerreotype licensee for Essex, and also operated for a time in parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. He practised at the Falcon Street studio from May 1849 to March 1853, and also set up for a short while near the marketplace in Stowmarket from April 1852. (Adamson says May 1852.) He was in Sudbury, address unknown, in July 1852. He also set up other temporary studios in Cambridgeshire, Essex, and further afield. He patented a machine for making daguerreotype plates in 1854, but also made wet collodion portraits on glass and paper. ( For the earliest known Suffolk photographer, however, see William Williams.) The label on the back of a daguerreotype in the possession of Sheila Miller reads: ‘Mr E Monson, (Licensee for Essex and part of Suffolk), Daguerreotype Artist, Falcon Street, Ipswich. Directions – Hang the picture about the height of the eye, and let the top of it slant away from the wall. The objects portrayed can be most distinctly seen in a strong light.’ David Gobbitt draws attention to Monson's return to Ipswich in 1861, when he set up a carte de visite studio in Friars Street. He announced his intention to settle in Ipswich but later moved to Middlesex, and he had given up photography by 1871. (See also Monson v Eardley.) Much additional biographical and career information about Monson can be found on Tony Copsey's 'Suffolk Painters' website. MORGAN, John Thomas
MORLEY, Edward
MORRIS, Edwin
According to his advertisement in HS1864, Morris offered ‘cartes de visite and portraits of all kinds executed second to none, and the cheapest in the County’. MORTON, George Stephen
The business appears as ‘George Stephen Morton & Son’ in JI1890. He was advertising in the 'Ipswich Journal' by July 1888. MOSS, George
MOUNCER, A
MOUNT, Arthur Edgar
MOWLE, Claude Information from 'Water Marks', Ian Collins; Black Dog Books, 2010): Mowle (1871-1950) had a photographic studio in Gorleston in the early years of the 20th century. He also worked in partnership with Kenneth Luck (1873-1935), who was a Yarmouth pier-head painter, specialising in pictures of fishing vessels. Mowle took photographs which Luck then used as guides on which to base his paintings. On occasion Mowle projected lantern slides on to board or canvas, and marked in outlines of the boats for Luck to follow. MUNDAY, Peter George
The address is given as 'Hoxne, Scole' in the main trade list, but appears on the addenda page as 'Hoxne, Eye'. For Munday's Yarmouth and Attleborough studios, see the Norfolk directory.
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