Social Victorians/People/Lauder
Also Known As
edit- Family name: Lauder
- James Lafayette, pseudonym[1]
- Lafayette Studio
- VIAF ID: 14147118250326341640 (Personal)
Demographics
edit- Nationality: Irish[1]
Residences
editFamily
edit- Edmund Stanley Lauder (1828 – 29 November 1891)[4]
- Sarah Harding Stack (1828–1913)
- James Stack Lauder (1853 – 20 August 1923[5])
- Lydis Harding Lauder (1857 – 23 February 1920)
- George Marsh Lauder (5 November 1857 – 14 December 1922[6])
- Edmund Stanley Lauder (1859 – 17 May 1895[7])
- Robert Enwraight Lauder (1861 – 19 January 1938)
- Sarah Harding Lauder (1865 – 15 September 1924[8])
- William Harding Lauder (11 May 1866[9] – 1918)
- Harriet Barry Lauder (1868–1933)
- 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])
Organizations
edit- Managing Director, Lafayette, Ltd. (1898 to 1923)[1]
Timeline
edit1880, 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
editThe 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- 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- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ 2.0 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.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2016.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ 15.0 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/.
- ↑ "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.