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As one of the earliest daguerreotypists in London, William Edward Kilburn became "Her Majesty's Daguerreotypist" in 1846 and was engaged to photograph the royal family for six years. Aristocrats and members of high society admired and purchased his work, which was often finely hand-colored. He exhibited photographs at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851 and two years later patented a stereoscopic daguerreotype case. In 1859 Kilburn began to make enlargements using the Woodward Solar Camera. His work, mainly portraits, was widely reproduced in newspapers and journals in the form of woodcut engravings. As the popularity of the daguerreotype waned in favor of photographs on paper, he closed his studio in 1862.
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