James Lafayette

This article is about the photographer. For the African-American slave and American Revolutionary War double agent, see James Armistead Lafayette.

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, with Yorick's skull. (Photographer: James Lafayette. c. 1885–1900).

James Lafayette was the pseudonym of James Stack Lauder (1853–1923).[1] He was a late Victorian and Edwardian portrait photographer, and managing director from 1898 to 1923 of a company in Dublin specializing in society photographs, Lafayette Ltd.[1] In 1887, he became the first Irish photographer to be granted a royal warrant.[2]

  1. ^ a b Anon. (1990).
  2. ^ Meadows (2004)