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Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Mourning portrait of K. Horvath-Stansith, née Kiss, artist unknown, 1680s A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed, by an unknown painter, 1675-1700. A mourning portrait or deathbed portrait is a portrait of a person who has recently died, usually shown on their deathbed, or lying in repose, displayed for mourners. These were not rare in ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Inger Stevens was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the eldest child of Per Gustaf [3] and Lisbet Stensland. [4] [5] [self-published source] When she was six years old, her mother abandoned the family, taking her youngest son Peter with her.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...
Cissy Houston's family is "devastated" by her death, a source tells PEOPLE. Cissy, mother of the late Whitney Houston and a legendary gospel singer herself, died at 91 on Monday, Oct. 7 at her ...
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide [1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family [2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the grandmother, was strangled. The bodies were found on 1 July 2018, in the early morning after the death.
Dr. Hayes Martin announced Ruth's death, revealing that the cause of death was cancer. [6] Previously, only his family had known; Ruth had not been told of his diagnosis. His body was taken from the hospital to the Universal Funeral Chapel and his family allowed mourners to visit and pay their respects after 3:00 p.m. [7]