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A charming example of his best known style is an intimate, lyrical landscape taken in 1856 in northern Wales. The family in the photograph is almost certainly his own, and he has carefully balanced his desire to faithfully record elaborate details with broad atmospheric effects. As with many of his
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It is White's skill as an amateur photographer during the 1850s and 1860s, rather than as a lawyer, which is responsible for his reputation. He produced picturesque
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and his landscape photographs and won a gold medal at the
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in 1855, serving as its treasurer between 1866 and 1872 and contributed photographs to their albums in 1855 and 1857. He also belonged to the
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He was prolific exhibitor, showing at least 237 photographs in the eight years from 1855 and meeting with considerable praise; he won the highest medal at the 1855
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Henry White was born in London on 2 June 1819, the third of six children of the lawyer
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quarry owner and they had three children, Henry, Louisa and Alice, born between 1849 and 1852.
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