George Herbert Watkins (12 July 1828 – 1916) was an English portrait photographer.
Biography George Herbert Watkins was born on 12 July 1828 in Worcester, England. He opened his studio in London in the mid-1850s. He published a series of portraits with printed biographies, titled "National Gallery of Photographic Portraits". Watkins took a famous picture of Charles Dickens sitting at his desk.
Watkins pioneered mixed media photo-caricature carte de visites. He died in 1916. He has a display at the National Portrait Gallery. He has 193 portraits in total at the gallery.
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