Item #53349 JOHN FORBES WHITE: MILLER, COLLECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER, 1831 - 1904. JOHN FORBES WHITE, Dorothea Hamilton Fyfe, Charles Sinclair Minto.

JOHN FORBES WHITE: MILLER, COLLECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER, 1831 - 1904:

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Corporation, Libraries and Museums Committee, 1970. White, John Forbes. First edition. 8vo., 16 pp., frontispiece portrait, 12 b&w photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers, which are moderately soiled. Very good. Item #53349
ISBN: 0900353015

"John Forbes White was a wealthy Aberdeen flour miller. He became interested in photography in his early twenties, learning wax paper processes from his boyhood friend and later brother-in-law, Thomas Keith. White took no more than one hundred wax paper negatives and had abandoned photography altogether by the time of his marriage in 1859. As White's wealth grew, he transferred his passion to picture collecting, purchasing his first Dutch painting at an exhibition in London in 1862, and later becoming an influential patron of contemporary Scottish art." (from the National Galleries of Scotland listing).

Price: $40.00