John Jabez Edwin Mayall

For the English blues musician, see John Mayall.

John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Self-portrait of Mayall (daguerreotype, c. 1844)
Born(1813-09-17)17 September 1813
Oldham, United Kingdom
Died6 March 1901(1901-03-06) (aged 87)
Southwick, United Kingdom
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1841−1888

John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall (17 September 1813 – 6 March 1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.[1] He is most well known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx.

Born into a Baptist family on 17 September 1813, at Chamber Hall, near Oldham in the county of Lancashire, his birth name was registered as Jabez Meal. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Meal.

  1. ^ John Plunkett (2003). Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-925392-7.[page needed]