Unidentified sitters

[This sitting does not appear in the Silvy daybooks in the archives of the National Portrait Gallery. Presumably the sitters visited the studio between July 1863 and June 1864, the period covered by the missing daybook.]

When Silvy closed his studio in 1868, all his glass negatives - some seventeen thousand of them - were transferred to the studio of his erstwhile assistant Adolphe Beau in Regent Street. Advertisements in the classified columns of various newspapers informed Silvy's former clients that should they wish to reorder copies of their portraits, these would henceforth be available through Beau. This is one of those portraits, printed by Beau from a Silvy negative after Silvy had closed his studio. Printed verso in red, a plain, simple backplate reads: 'Printed at / Adolphe Beau's / Atelier / 283 Regent Street / near Langham Place / From [a] Negative / by C. Silvy.'