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John Stuart Mill

An 1865 CDV by London photographer John Watkins of philosopher, economist, and parliamentarian John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873). According to Mill in an 1867 letter, this was the only photographic portrait session for which he ever sat:

 

'Want of time, combined with dislike for the operation, has obliged me to refuse all proposals from photographers to take my likeness, except in one instance, when I sat to Mr Watkins of Parliament Street, from whom any one who wishes for a photograph of me can obtain one.'*

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watkins_(photographer)

 

 

 

*From: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XVI - The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill 1849-1873 Part III, ed. Francis E. Mineka and Dwight N. Lindley (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972).

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