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Also Known As edit

Demographics edit

  • Nationality: Irish[1]

Residences edit

  • 36 The Avenue, Gipsy Hill SE, Dublin[2]
  • 4 Marlborough Gate (1919–1923)[3]

Family edit

  • Edmund Stanley Lauder (1828 – 29 November 1891)[4]
  • Sarah Harding Stack (1828–1913)
    1. James Stack Lauder (1853 – 20 August 1923[5])
    2. Lydis Harding Lauder (1857 – 23 February 1920)
    3. George Marsh Lauder (5 November 1857 – 14 December 1922[6])
    4. Edmund Stanley Lauder (1859 – 17 May 1895[7])
    5. Robert Enwraight Lauder (1861 – 19 January 1938)
    6. Sarah Harding Lauder (1865 – 15 September 1924[8])
    7. William Harding Lauder (11 May 1866[9] – 1918)
    8. Harriet Barry Lauder (1868–1933)
    9. Thomas Campion Lauder (8 June 1873 – 7 December 1943[10])


  • James Stack Lauder (1853 – 20 August 1923)
  • Annie (Anne Pierette) Dinette (c. 1871 – 6 March 1962[11])
    1. Doris Lauder (1888 – )
    2. Eric Lauder (c. 1888 – )[2]
    3. James Lafayette Lauder (c. 1890 – )[2]
    4. Winifred Stanley Lauder (c. 1890[2] – 1981)
    5. Elizabeth Lauder (c. 1892 – )[2]
    6. Gordon Lauder (c. 1895 – )[2]
    7. Haold Victor Lauder (c. 1898 – )[2]
    8. Robert Harold Thomas Victor (baptized 13 September 1901[12] – )

Organizations edit

  • Managing Director, Lafayette, Ltd. (1898 to 1923)[1]

Timeline edit

1880, Lafayette was founded and a studio opened in Dublin.[13]

1885, Alexandra, Princess of Wales received an honorary doctorate in music from the Royal University of Ireland and sat for a portrait by James Stack Lauder in her doctoral robes.[13]

1887 March 6, Lauder received a royal warrant, the first Irish recipient of such a warrant, which allowed him to use "Photographer to Her Majesty at Dublin" and "Photographer Royal" in his advertising.[14]

1887, second quarter, James Stack Lauder and Anne Pierette Dinette married.

1897 July 3, Lauder attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House at the Duke's invitation, to take portrait photographs of the guests.

1890, Lafayette studio opened in Glasgow.[13]

1892, Lafayette studio opened in Manchester.[13]

1897, Lafayette studio opened on Bond Street in London.[13]

1898, Lafayette studios were incorporated and shares sold on the Stock Exchange.[13]

1911 April 2, Sunday, the 1911 England Census lists the following people at 35 The Avenue, Gipsy Hill, SE, Dublin: James Stack Lauder, Annie Stack Lauder, Eric Lauder, James Lafayette Lauder, Winifred Stanley Lauder, Elizabeth Lauder, Gordon Lauder, and Haold [sic] Victor Lauder, as well as 5 female servants: Kate Ward (30 years old, Governess), Helen Hull (47, Cook Domestic), E. Ethel White (22, Parlourmaid Domestic), E. Adeline Drew (23, Housemaid Domestic), Violet Cook (14, Kitchenmaid Domestic).[2]

The Photographs at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball edit

The Duke of Devonshire invited James Stack Lauder "to set up a tent in the garden behind the house to photograph the guests in costume during the Ball," and his firm Lafayette photographed many of the guests at the ball.[15] Russell Harris says,

In an interview with St James's Budget the following year Mr. Lafayette, acknowledging that he had been kept very busy since he opened a studio in London, described how he photographed the guests at the Devonshire House Ball: "I created a temporary studio in the garden, with a powerful installation of electric light; and though it may sound immodest to say so, the appearance of 'a gay photographer' at such a function was considered highly original, and was openly spoken of as a feature of the historic occasion."[15]

Lafayette brought equipment, backdrops and furnishings to provide settings for the portraits. Harris says,

in order to capture the sense of event and location, the studio prepared a new backdrop (a painted canvas stretched on a wooden frame) which represented the lawn and gardens of Devonshire House complete with statuary. In the event of guests desiring a different background, the studio also transported its baronial hall and country estate backdrops as well as some studio balustrade, a piece of wall and a Turkish carpet.[15]

A number of portrait-style photographs exist from this event, some apparently taken in Lafayette's studio as well as at the event itself. Also, not all the photographs were made by Lafayette: some people used other photographers to make a record of themselves in their costumes.

An "album" of some of these photographs — including portraits taken by other photographers — were collected and given to the Duchess of Devonshire as a gift in 1899,[16] about two years after the ball.

Questions and Notes edit

  1. The family tree of Edmund Stanley Lauder and Sarah Harding Stack comes from the work of "kpeach1," a user on Ancestry, rather than directly from primary sources, but the tree seems reasonably although not perfectly well documented.

Footnotes edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "James Lafayette". Wikipedia. 2021-04-25. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lafayette&oldid=1019860864.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lafayette.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  3. ↑ Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  4. ↑ kpeach1. "Kathleen Lauder Family Tree." Ancestry Family Trees. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/75907258/person/46539951016/facts. This citation for the entire nuclear family.
  5. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  6. ↑ Ancestry.com. Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2015.
  7. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  8. ↑ Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2016.
  9. ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  10. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  11. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  12. ↑ Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Harris, Russell. "The Lafayette Studio." Narrated in Calm Prose: Photographs from the V&A's Lafayette Archive of Guests in Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Ball, July 1897. 2011. http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/incalmprose/.
  14. ↑ Harris, Russell. "Foreword." Narrated in Calm Prose: Photographs from the V&A's Lafayette Archive of Guests in Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Ball, July 1897. 2021. http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/incalmprose/.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Harris, Russell. "The Ball." Narrated in Calm Prose: Photographs from the V&A's Lafayette Archive of Guests in Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Ball, July 1897. 2011. http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/incalmprose/.
  16. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
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