Alexander Bassano

Alexander Bassano (1829-1913) opened his first photographic portrait studio in London during the early 1850s, which grew to become one of the most important studios of the Victorian era. In the years that followed, Bassano’s studio occupied various London addresses before he opened his grand studio at 25 Old Bond Street in 1877, where he remained. Bassano also formed partnerships with other photographers, but these were short-lived. He retired from work in around 1903, when the premises were extensively refurbished and relaunched as Bassano Ltd. The studio remained popular throughout the twentieth century, and although it was subsequently resold on many occasions, it retained the Bassano name and the studio’s archive of negatives._{National Portrait Gallery}

Miss Mabel Love, around 1920