Size
Date
Country
Artist
Sitter
Case

1/6
ca 1858-1860
Cardiff, UK
George Sadler
Unknown
Wall case

Notes

"A. Sadler, photographic artist"

"Persila Reynold"

"Photographic Portraits. From daylight till dusk, in any position or colour, at sittings from- (...)
By Mr. G. Sadler. Sunshine not required. Price, in neat Frame, from 3s. 6d. Family groups (...) Lockets, brooches, etc., supplied, and miniatures ne- (...) Portraits of animals, shipping, buildings, machinery, (...) Families in Town or Country, having suitable premises for Photographic- (...) their residences.
G. Sadler invites the attention of the Public generally to an inspection (...) productions in Photography, exhibited at his Photographic Gallery, and (...) where his name appears. Having constructed his Apparatus in a pe- (...) Photographers he can produce Likenesses real and satisfactory; not such- (...) and exhibited by others in various places, with dark, cloudy, and grevious (...) as are artistic and pleasing in every detail, with eyes and complexion (...) required) as bright as when viewed in a mirror. Competent judges from various Towns have pronounced them to be "re (...) dily executed."

Possibly a period copy of an American ambrotype. The border seen in the original suggests a date between 1851-1865, so the original must've been made somewhere between 1855-1858.

There's no "A." Sadler I could find, but G. Sadler was George Sadler (1823-1901) who operated on Bute Road, Cardiff. (Now Bute Street) He decided to become a photographer in 1851, but his first ad in the papers appeared in August 1859. When he went bankrupt in 1865 he mentioned being in business for 12 years; so since around 1853.

In 1866 he recovered from an illness and resumed his business. Around 1874 he began to dabble in spiritualism. In 1882 his wife passed away and his son, Evan George Sadler got married. He too became a photographer.