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(2) P(hilip) H(enry) Delamotte
(b Sandhurst, Kent, 1820; d Bromley, Kent, 24 Feb 1889). Photographer and illustrator, son of (1) William Delamotte. By the late 1840s he had established himself as an illustrator. He made watercolours for Matthew Digby Wyatt’s Industrial Arts of the XIX Century at the Great Exhibition (London, 1851–3) and drawings for Choice Examples of Art Workmanship (London, 1851). Delamotte is best known for his Photographic Views of the Progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. He began to record its reconstruction in 1852; and his work was published by the Photographic Institution (London, 1855). Delamotte took out a calotype portrait licence from William Henry Fox Talbot and offered his services to artists, sculptors, architects and engineers. He produced and sold topographical photographs and advertised his services as a calotype printer and teacher of photography. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were his most prestigious pupils.
Part of the Delamotte family
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