Herbert Watkins

George Herbert Watkins was an English portrait photographer.

Biography

George Herbert Watkins was born on 12 July 1828 in Worcester, England. He opened his studio in London in the mid-1850s. He published a series of portraits with printed biographies, titled "National Gallery of Photographic Portraits". Watkins took a famous picture of Charles Dickens sitting at his desk.
Watkins pioneered mixed media photo-caricature carte de visites. He died in 1916. He has a display at the National Portrait Gallery. He has 193 portraits in total at the gallery.