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The Photographic Work of Henry Aubrey and Mrs Matilda Aubrey of Horsham

[ABOVE] Design on the reverse of a carte-de-visite by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1890)

Henry Aubrey was the name adopted by London-born photographer Henry Garrett Cocking (1852-1894) shortly before he established a photographic portrait studio at 41 West Street, Horsham around1883. Henry Garrett Cocking's father was Edwin Cocking (1818-1892), a portrait painter and photographer of Peckham, South-East London. Edwin Cocking joined his son in Horsham a few years later and established his own studio at 30 North Street, Horsham under the name of "Edwin Aubrey".

Edwin Aubrey (Edwin Cocking) passed away in Horsham in 1892 and his son Henry Aubrey (Edwin Cocking) died suddenly in 1894 at the age of 42. The photographic studio at 41 West Street, Horsham was taken over by Henry's widow, Mrs Matilda Aubrey (1851-1913), who ran the studio for another ten years with the assistance of her eldest daughter Lydia Isabel Aubrey (1877-1915).

The Aubrey studio at 41 West Street, Horsham was taken over by a young local photographer Ernest Chart (born 1884, Horsham) who ran the business under the name Chart & Co. The studio of Chart & Co. continued in Horsham until around 1907, when the studio premises at 41 West Street, Horsham passed to the Acme Photo Company.

 

 

Carte-de-visite Portraits by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham ( 1883-1894 )

[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a young man by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1883). [ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait by Henry Aubrey of  41 West Street, Horsham, inscribed "W. J. C. Foster, Henfield, 1885" [ABOVE] A vignette portrait of  a woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1890). [ABOVE] A portrait of  a seated woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1892).

[ABOVE] A group family portrait, a carte-de-visite photograph by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1892). The teenage lad in the middle appears in the carte-de-visite on the right.

[ABOVE] A portrait of  a young man in an apron, carte-de-visite photograph by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham( c1892). Possibly photographed to mark start of apprenticeship.

[ABOVE] A vignette portrait of  a woman, a carte-de-visite photograph by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1893).

[ABOVE] A portrait of  a woman standing by an ornately carved cabinet, probably photographed by Mrs Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1898).

 

Trade Plate Designs used by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham - 1885-1894 

[ABOVE] Design on the reverse of a carte-de-visite by Henry Aubrey of 41 High Street, Horsham (c1885) [ABOVE] Design on the reverse of a carte-de-visite by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1888) [ABOVE] Design on the reverse of a carte-de-visite by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1892) [ABOVE] Design on the reverse of a carte-de-visite by Henry Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham (c1893)
 

Cabinet Portraits by Henry Aubrey (active 1885-1894) and Mrs Matilda Aubrey (active 1894-1905)

[ABOVE] Cabinet Portrait by Henry Aubrey, Photographer of 41 West Street, Horsham. (c1890)

[ABOVE] A Cabinet Group Portrait by Mrs Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham. (c1898)

[ABOVE] Portrait of a Man in Naval Uniform by Mrs Aubrey of 41 West Street, Horsham. (c1900)

 

To read an account of the lives and careers of the Aubrey (Cocking) Family of Photographers, click on the link below:

 Edwin Aubrey - Henry Aubrey - Matilda Lydia Aubrey - Lydia Aubrey

 

 

[ABOVE ] Trade plate of Henry Garrett Cocking of  57 Queens Road, Peckham, S.E. London, advertising branch studios at 7 Mount Eliott Terrace, High Road, Lee  and Kelvin Grove, Sydenham, S.E. London, taken from the reverse of a carte-de-visite portrait (c1878). Around 1885 Henry Garrett Cocking changed his name to 'Henry Aubrey' and set up a new studio in Horsham, West Sussex.

The Photographic Studios of the Aubrey (Cocking) Family of Photographers

STUDIO NAME

STUDIO ADDRESS

PROPRIETOR

DATES

Edwin Cocking

 117 Warwick Street, Leamington

Edwin Cocking

1862-1864
  Gotha Place, Queens Road, Peckham

Edwin Cocking

1864-1866
  57 Queens Road, Peckham, S.E.

Edwin Cocking

1867-1887
Richard C. Cocking 60 High Street, Peckham, S.E.

Richard Coulston Cocking

 

1869-1871
  1 Northampton Terrace, High Street, Denmark Hill, Camberwell 1869-1870
H. Garrett Cocking 57 Queens Road, Peckham, S.E.

Henry G. Cocking & Edwin Cocking

1874-1880
  Lee Bridge, High Road, Lee, Lewisham Henry G. Cocking 1874-1875
  7 Mount Eliott Terrace, High Road, Lee, S.E. London Henry G. Cocking

1878

  Kelvin Grove, Sydenham, S.E. Henry G. Cocking

1878

  26 The Parade, High Road, Lee, Lewisham Henry G. Cocking 1878-1881
   4 Brunswick Place, Blackheath Henry G. Cocking 1880-1882
Around 1882, Edwin Cocking and his son Henry Garrett Cocking changed their surname to AUBREY. By 1883, Henry Aubrey (Cocking) had settled in Horsham. Edwin Aubrey (Cocking) joined his son in Horsham around 1887.

Edwin Aubrey

 30 North Street, Horsham, Sussex

Edwin Aubrey

1887-1892

Henry Aubrey

41 West Street, Horsham, Sussex

Henry Aubrey

1883-1894
Mrs Matilda Aubrey 41 West Street, Horsham, Sussex

Mrs Matilda Aubrey

1894-1905

[ABOVE ] The reverse of a carte-de-visite portrait photographed at Henry Aubrey's studio in Horsham around 1883. A label with the details of Henry Aubrey, artist, portrait and landscape photographer of 41 West Street, Horsham is pasted over the trade plate used for his former studios in Lee and Peckham, when he went under the name of Henry Garrett Cocking.

Notes on Horsham Photographers & Examples of their Work

  Edwin AUBREY (aka Cocking)   - Henry AUBREY (aka Cocking)   - Mrs Matilda AUBREY   - Thomas C.  BAYFIELD   - Mrs Elizabeth BAYFIELD   -  William Henry BRIGDEN   - Jesse & Charles BROWN - Ernest CHART   - Mr CLARK of West Street   - James GOLDSWORTHY   - Henry T. HEALEY   - John HICKS   - William HOBBS   - Henry HOCKING   - James LLOYD   - Arthur LYLE   - Henry PADWICK (amateur)  - Louis C. PIERRE -   Arthur PIPER   - Thomas S. ROBINSON   - Mr RUSSELL of West Street   - Herbert SALMON   - William Henry Gilbert TATE   - Edward D. WALTON   - John WHEELER   - William WALLER

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