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