To read an account of the early history of photography in both East Sussex and West Sussex, click on the following link :

An Outline History of Professional Photography in Sussex from 1841 to 1855

 To access over 5000 images of West Sussex in the past, currently held in various West Sussex collections, just click on the link below :

West Sussex Past Pictures

Sussex PhotoHistory Part 2 : Additional Indexes to Brighton and Sussex Photographers active in the 19th Century

PROFILES OF 19TH CENTURY BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHERS

Click on the names inside the red box below to view Biographical Notes on Brighton Photographers

 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHERS  (A-Z)

 A-Z LISTING OF BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHERS 

BRIGHTON BIOGRAPHIES : George Cassinello & Nicola Cassinello ; Arthur Esm e Collings  ; Keturah Collings ; Thomas Cowdrey; William Dawson ; Frederick Oakes Devereux ; Charles Donovan ;  Thomas Donovan  ;  Frank Doran ;  Henry Thomas Edwards ;  William Feldwicke ; Eugene de Fontaine (William Kessler) ;  Samuel Fry ; W. & A.H. Fry ; Walter Gardner ; Stephen Grey ; Charles S. Grey ; Sidney W. Grey ; Robert Hatt ;  John Atkins Jones ;  William Lane  ; G. A. Lloyd ;  Lombardi (Antonio and Eugenio Martinucci) ; Stanley Mann and Sidney Herbert Mann   (Mann Bros.) ; E. Mentor & Co. ; Merrick & Co. (Joseph Langridge); Gustav Schulz ; O. P. Suisse (Otto Pfenninger) ; Harry Pointer ; William Prudden  ;  Henry J. Spink & Henry Spink junior  ; Francis Ross Wells ; Edmund Wheeler : Ebenezer Woodcock.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

PICTURE GALLERIES FEATURING THE WORK OF 19TH CENTURY BRIGHTON & SUSSEX PHOTOGRAPHERS

Click on the names inside the blue box below to view a selection of work by Sussex and Brighton Photographers

BRIGHTON & SUSSEX GALLERIES

INFORMATION REQUIRED

If you have any information on photographers active in Sussex during Victorian or Edwardian times or have examples of their work, please contact me by e-mail. I would also be pleased to hear from any person who has family links with a photographer who was active in Sussex between 1841 and 1910.

Thanks, David Simkin

david@photohistory-sussex.co.uk

Portraiture in Sussex Before Photography

1. Portrait Artists

2. Miniature painters

3. Profilists and Silhouette Artists

4. Engravings & Prints

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 Kevin Bacon, Martin Balk, Kylie Barnes, Peter Bayliss, Brian Betts, Sally Blann, Helena Grace Blomfield, Johnny Blomfield, Alan Booth, Debbi Botham, Brighton History Centre, Peter Cannings-Bushell, Gordon Childs, Chris Christian, Gill Clayton, Ron Cosens, John Counsell, Sue Craig, Joan Crook, David Cryer, Denise Dagen, Geoff Dernee, Jean Donovan, Linda Evans, Steven Evans, Winnifred Evans, Brian Faithfull, Don & Judy Fleming, Chris Francis, Alan Fry, Philippe Garner, Susan Guhm, Bernard & Pauline Heathcote, Christine Hibbert, Ted Hide, Heather Holford, Jeanette Holm, David Hooper, Brett Jeffery, Maxine Jones, Neil Kennett, Peter Kessler,  Peter King, Jeremy Knight of Horsham Museum, Jackie Knott,  Audrey Linkman, Craig Little, Deirdre Long, Zoe Lubowiecka of Hove Reference Library, Richard Meara, Peter Merrett, Eric Monahan, Alan Moore, Carolyn Nield, Pat O'Keefe, Roger Packham, Brett Payne, Sue Perry, Jacqueline Phillips, Rosemary & Stan Rodliffe, Michael Rogers, Jimmy Scutt, Jennifer Smith, Liz Smith, Nick Smith, Ruth Street, Peter Stubbs, David Ticehurst, Jillian Trethewey, Raymond Turley, Cris Van Hal, Roger Vaughan, Beryl Vosburgh, Dave Weedon, Sally Whiffing, Sheila Whittingham. A special thanks to John Roles who provided my first introduction to Victorian and Edwardian photographs.

This website is dedicated to the memory of Arthur T. Gill (1915-1987)

[ABOVE ] Arthur Gill photographed in London in 1964.

Click below to see a list of websites which provide information on photographers active in other parts of the British Isles during the period 1841-1910

LINKS TO OTHER PHOTO-HISTORY WEBSITES

The Personal Pages of David Simkin and his Family