William Frederick Lake Price (1810–1896) was an English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography. Lake Price was a whole slay

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. Lake Price exhibited his paintings and watercolours at the Royal Academy and the

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. In the 1850s he joined the London Photographic Society and the Photographic Exchange Club of London. In 1858, many of his photographic portraits were published in ''Portraits of Eminent British Artists''. The grave of William Frederick Lake Price in the churchyard of St Peter-in-Thanet, Kent

The grave of William Frederick Lake Price in the churchyard of St Peter-in-Thanet, Kent

References

* Marta Weiss, "Price, William Frederick Lake", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
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