Henry Maull Explained

Henry Maull
Birth Date:	1829
Birth Place:	England, UK
Death Place:	England, UK
Field:	Photography

Henry Maull (1829–1914) was a British photographer who specialised in portraits of noted individuals.

Biography

Maull was born in Clerkenwell as the son of a tradesman.^[1] He married Eliza (b Islington 1831) and became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1870.^[2]

Henry Maull formed several partnerships during his career:^[1]

• 1856 - 8 March 1865: Maull & Polyblank^{[3] [4]} in partnership with George Henry Polyblank. Other sources say it was established in 1854.^[5]
• 1866-1872: Maull, Henry & Co

• 1873-1878: Maull & Co

• 1879-1885: Maull & Fox, in partnership with John Fox (1832 - 1907).^[6] The studio continued under the original name by others and moved to 200 Gray's Inn Road. It was officially closed on 26 October 1928^[7] and the final creditors' meeting was held on 30 November 1928. The firm was taken over by the Graphic Photo Union, which in turn was taken over by Kemsley Newspapers.^[2]

Maull operated studios at the following locations:^[2]

1. 62 Cheapside, City of London March 1865 - 1871.
2. Tavistock House, 252 Fulham Road, Chelsea March 1865 - 1869.
3. 187a Piccadilly, Westminster March 1865 - 1871.

Works

• Portraits of Members of Parliament by Maull and Polyblank, 163 photographs^[5]
• Portraits of noted individuals, which were frequently published as engravings in the Illustrated London News^[4]
• Photographs of Fellows from the mid-nineteenth century until the early twentieth century.^{[1] [8]}

Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities

Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities was published from 1856 to 1859, featuring forty individual portraits with accompanying biographies by Herbert Fry, Pts 1 - 4; later parts by Edward Walford, issued to subscribers over a period of forty-one months and eventually all published in a single volume London, W. Kent, 1859. Vol I^{[2] [4]}

The issues published were:^[2]

1. May 1856. Professor Owen
2. June 1856. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
3. July 1856. Robert Stephenson
4. August 1856. John Arthur Roebuck
5. September 1856. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
6. October 1856. Edward Hodges Baily
7. November 1856. Samuel Warren (British lawyer)
8. December 1856. Professor Thomas Graham
9. January 1857. Edward Matthew Ward
   1. February 1857. Lord Campbell March 1857. George Cruikshank
   2. April 1857. Rowland Hill May 1857. Sir William Fenwick Williams
10. June 1857. William P. Frith
11. July 1857. Cardinal Wiseman
12. August 1857. Lord Brougham
13. September 1857. Martin Farquhar Tupper
14. October 1857. Michael Faraday
    1. November 1857. John Gibson (sculptor) December 1857. Earl of Rosse
15. January 1858. Charles Kean
16. February 1858. William Ewart Gladstone
17. March 1858. Sir Archibald Alison
18. April 1858. William Sterndale Bennett
19. May 1858. David Livingstone
20. June 1858. Earl of Aberdeen
21. July 1858. Daniel Maclise
22. August 1858. Lord Stanley
23. September 1858. Dr Tait, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury)
24. October 1858. Austen Henry Layard
25. November 1858. Clarkson Stanfield
26. December 1858. Lord Panmure
27. January 1859. John Baldwin Buckstone
28. February 1859. Comte de Montalambert
29. March 1859. Samuel Lover
30. April 1859. Lord John Manners
31. May 1859. Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce
32. June 1859. Sir John Lawrence
33. July 1859. Lord Colchester
34. August 1859. Archbishop of Canterbury John Bird Sumner

Further reading

• Bertie Polyblank . Maul & Polyblank and the Carte de Visite . Polyblank Society Occasional Newsletter . 3 . September 1987. illus of cdvs

External links

• Maull Portrait Photograph Collection, The Royal Society
  • Collection of the Month - Maull Photographs
  • Collection catalog

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maull Portrait Photograph Collection . The Royal Society . 2007-09-10 .
2. Web site: PhotoLondon biography . 29 June 2014 . 2 July 2014 . https://archive.today/20140702002014/http://www.photolondon.org.uk/pages/details.asp?pid=5193 . dead .
3. London Gazette, 1865 p 2059
4. Web site: Maull & Polyblank . 2007-09-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607080024/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1244 . 2011-06-07 . dead .
5. Web site: House of Commons Library Photograph Albums . U.K. Parliament Archives . 2021-05-12 .
6. Encyclopaedia of 19th Century Photography, John Hannavy, London, Routledge, 2013. p. 905
7. London Gazette, 1928 p 7493
8. The Maull photographic portrait collection held at The Royal Society . Notes Rec. R. Soc. . Christine Woollett. January 9, 2007 . 61 . 69–74 . 10.1098/rsnr.2006.0169 . 145084311 . 2007-09-10 . subscription .