Glenbuchat Heritage

95 Charles John Forbes, Lonach Men 1863

Pictures:
1. Charles John Forbes of Newe, possibly taken at Mar lodge 1863
2. Lonach Highlanders, guard of honour 1863
Pictures from te National gallery "Creative Commons - CC by NC"


The pictures were taken by Victor Prout, Royal Photographer.

Prout, Victor Albert
Artist; Painter; Professional photographer

Prout was a portrait painter and professional photographer, the son of musical and artistic parents Maria and John Skinner Prout. He spent his professional career between England and Australia and established a reputation as 'one of the best art-photographers in London.' He claimed to have invented a panoramic camera and in 1870 introduced the autotype to Australia.

Prout was a portrait painter and professional photographer, second son of Maria and John Skinner Prout , was born in Bristol, Somerset on 9 December 1835. . He spent his professional career between England and Australia and established a reputation as 'one of the best art-photographers in London.' He claimed to have invented a panoramic camera and in 1870 introduced the autotype to Australia.

He accompanied his parents to Sydney in the Royal Sovereign , arriving on 16 December 1840, and presumably returned to England with them in 1848. By 1860 he was again in Sydney working as a photographer, but he soon returned to England and established a reputation as 'one of the best art-photographers in London’. The Interior of the Abbey of Westminster , Prout’s album of 23 mounted prints, was published in London by Colnaghi in 1860; The Thames from London to Oxford in Forty Photographs was issued in two portfolios of 20 photographs in 1862.

In 1863 the Sydney Morning Herald reported: He is at present at Abergeldie Castle, in Scotland, whither he was invited to go by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. He has taken the portraits of both the Prince and Princess of Wales, besides being invited by the Countess of Fife to her seat at a grand affair—the gathering of the clans. The Prince and Princess of Wales were present. Victor attended the ball and dinner parties, and his name flourished in all the papers. He gallantly threw down (like another Raleigh) his plaid for the Princess of Wales to walk upon on descending from her carriage. This is all likely to do him a great deal of good.