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French calf leather album by Maquet, with silver gilt clasps and green watered silk board lining, each leaf having four embossed paper windows, containing 100 albumen cartes-de-visite (RCINs 2915115-2915213). From the 1840s Queen Victoria began to acquire

Portrait Photographs in the Royal Collection

The Royal Family have collected, created and commissioned many portrait photographs

ATTRIBUTED TO SACHTLER & CO.

Chinese ladies and attendant

circa 1864 - 1870

RCIN 2702972

Following the introduction of photography in Europe in 1839, photographic studios began being established in Asia during the 1840s to1860s. This portrait by August Sachtler depicts two Chinese women and a male attendant. In the early 1860s, German August Sachtler (d.1874) and Dane Kristen Feilberg (1839-1919) established the first photographic studio in Singapore, trading under the name Sachtler & Co. This photograph is from an album presented to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) following his travels in Malaysia and Singapore.

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