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((Short description|English photographer (1813–1901)))
((For|the English blues musician|John Mayall))
((more citations needed|date=June 2015))
((Infobox person
| name               = John Jabez Edwin Mayall
| image              = John Jabez Edwin Mayall c1844.jpg
| caption            = Self-portrait of Mayall (daguerreotype, ((circa)) 1844)
| birth_date         = ((Birth date|1813|09|17))
| birth_place        = [[Oldham]], [[United Kingdom]]
| death_date         = ((Death date and age|1901|03|06|1813|09|17))
| death_place        = [[Southwick, West Sussex|Southwick]], United Kingdom
| occupation         = Photographer
))
((Use dmy dates|date=April 2014))
((Use British English|date=April 2014))

'''John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall''' (17 September 1813 near [[Oldham]], Lancashire – 6 March 1901 in [[Southwick, West Sussex]]) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first [[carte-de-visite]] photographs of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]].<ref>((cite book |title= Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch |author = John Plunkett |publisher= Oxford University Press |year= 2003 |isbn= 0-19-925392-7))((page needed|date=January 2016))</ref> 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.((citation needed|date=January 2016))

==North America==
Mayall moved to Philadelphia in late 1841 or early 1842, and first practiced as a photographer at 140 Chestnut Street as a until 1846.<ref>((Cite book |last=Plunkett |first=John |title=Encyclopedia Of Nineteenth-Century Photography |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-97235-2 |editor-last=Hannavy |editor-first=John |location=New York and Abingdon |pages=907-9 |language=en |chapter=Mayall, John Jabez Edwin (1813–1901)))</ref>

==Fine art photography==
[[Helmut Gernsheim|Gernsheim]] describes Mayall as "the earliest exponent of fine art photography," in advance of [[Oscar Gustave Rejlander|Oscar Rejlander]] and [[Julia Margaret Cameron|Julia-Margaret Cameron]], on the basis of his production in Philadelphia of ten daguerreotype in 1845 to illustrate ''The Lord's Prayer'' and his later, larger (24" x 15"; 61cm x 38 cm) "daguerreotype pictures to illustrate poetry and sentiment." These were shown in 1851 at the [[Great Exhibition]]; ''The Soldier's Dream'', ''The Venerable Bede blessing a child'', and ''Bacchus and Ariadne.'' However, he was discouraged by the judgement of ''[[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|The Athenaeum]]'': "To us these pictures seem a mistake. At best, we can only hope to get a mere naturalistic rendering. Ideality is unattainable–and imagination supplanted by the presence of fact."<ref name=":0" /> Not even Prince Albert's encouragement could dissuade Mayall from ceasing his pursuit of photography as art. A year after exhibiting at the [[Great Exhibition|Crystal Palace]] he limited remarks to the verisimilitude, rather than the artistry, of the daguerreotype;<blockquote>Viewed through an ordinary magnifying-glass, the resemblance of the portrait is perfectly staggering–the features stand forth as though moulded in wax–not a blemish escapes, nor is a beauty lost [ ... ] All hail to the fertile genius of man! Independently of the wonders of daguerreotyping, there is something very benign and gratifying in its application –the memory of the absent or the dead is faithfully treasured in the possession of one of these beautiful little specimens.<ref>((Cite news |date=8 January 1852 |title=The Daguerreotype and its wonders |pages=4 |work=Cheltenham Chronicle))</ref></blockquote>Nevertheless, his royal portraits were described as "very beautiful specimens of the photographic art,"<ref>((Cite news |date=16 August 1860 |title=Fine Arts: Mr Mayall's Photographic Exhibition |pages=6 |work=Morning Herald |location=London))</ref> and when in Brighton from 1864, Mayall advertised himself as "Artist and Photographer",<ref name=":2" /> and a notice in his studio read: "sitters are requested to place themselves as much as possible in the hands of the artist."<ref>((Cite book |last=Wichard |first=Robin |title=Victorian Cartes-de-Visite |last2=Wichard |first2=Carol |publisher=Shire Publications |year=1999 |isbn=9780747804338 |series=History in camera |location=Princes Risborough |pages=25 |language=en |oclc=1110070404))</ref>

His photograph of Sergeant Thomas Dawson and his daughter, the former of which lost an arm in battle, is considered one of the most important photographs ever taken.<ref>((Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_f1h1 |title=Oxford Companion to the Photograph |date=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-866271-6 |language=English |chapter=Chronology |access-date=21 February 2020 |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662716.001.0001/acref-9780198662716-miscMatter-0009 |url-access=registration))</ref> 

==Return to England==
Mayall arrived in London from America in 1846,<ref name=":0">((Cite book |last=Gernsheim |first=Helmut |title=The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914 |last2=Gernsheim |first2=Alison |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1955 |location=London |oclc=403552))</ref> and by August 1848 had placed advertisements describing himself as "Mr. Mayall of Philadelphia, United States." Mayall called his studio/gallery the "American Daguerreotype Institution".

==Portraits of eminent people==
Mayall's daguerreotype portrait of [[Charles Dickens]] was made between 1853 and 1855, and auctioned with a [[Reservation price|reserve]] of £30,000 by [[Christie's|Christies]] in May 2001.<ref>((Cite news |date=14 March 2001 |title=Rare Dickens picture to fetch £30,000 |pages=23 |work=Evening Standard))</ref> 

In May 1860, Mayall made a number of portraits of the Royal Family. He was given permission to publish the portraits of the Royal Family as a set of cartes-de-visite. In August 1860, the cartes were released in the form of a Royal Album, consisting of 14 small portraits of [[Queen Victoria]], [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] and their children.<ref>((Cite book |last=Mayall |first=J. E. |title=The Royal album: portraits of the royal family of England |publisher=A. Marion |year=1860 |location=London |language=en |oclc=40818532))</ref> ''[[The Royal Album]]'' was an immediate success, and hundreds of thousands were sold as Britons began collecting [[carte de visite]] portraits of famous people, a fad which [[Helmut Gernsheim|Gernsheim]] credits to the popularity of Mayall's royal portraits.<ref name=":0" />

Another series of royal portraits by Mayall was published in 1861 and when Prince Albert succumbed to [[typhoid fever]] in December 1861, his death created an enormous demand for his portrait. The ''Photographic News'' later reported that within one week of his death "no less than 70,000 of his carte de visite were ordered from Marion & Co."<ref name=":0" /> By the end of the decade, Marion & Co, had paid Mayall £35,000 for his portraits of the Royal Family which established the [[carte de visite]] (cdv) as his most popular portrait format, of which the Mayall establishment produced over half a million cartes a year, which helped him secure an annual income of £12,000.<ref name=":0" />

==Brighton==
Mayall left his eldest son Edwin to run his London studios and moved down to Brighton with his wife and two younger sons. On 18 July 1864, he opened his new photographic portrait studio at 90-91 [[Kings Road]],<ref name=":2">((Cite news |date=13 November 1873 |title=Advertising : J. E. Mayall |pages=4 |work=Brighton Gazette))</ref> close to the recently built [[Grand Hotel (Brighton)|Grand Hotel]]. In an announcement placed in the pages of the ''Brighton Examiner'', he stated that he had "spared neither pains nor expertise in preparing, for the accommodation of the nobility and gentry resident at or visiting Brighton, one of the most efficient studios ever built." Although he addressed his comments particularly to the "nobility and gentry", Mayall admitted that he was "not unmindful of the fact . . . that moderate charges are as necessary as general excellence to ensure extensive public patronage." Mayall charged £1.1s for a set of 12 carte de visite portraits and £5.5s for his "highly finished" coloured portrait photographs.((citation needed|date=January 2016)) 

In 1880 he transferred his business to [[Bond Street]], London.<ref name=":1">((Cite news |date=21 September 1885 |title=Failures |pages=8 |work=Liverpool Mercury))</ref>

==Personal life==
On 19 February 1869 his son, John Junior, became the first person to cycle from London to Brighton. ''The Times'' reported his sixteen-hour ride, "An Extraordinary Velocipede Feat"  the following day.<ref>((Cite news |date=18 November 1896 |title=Feats of Endurance |pages=2 |work=Southern Echo))</ref>

Mayall's wife Eliza died in Brighton in 1870. The following year, on 14 December 1871 at [[St George's Bloomsbury]], he married Celia Victoria Hooper (1838&ndash;1922), widow of timber merchant Henry Morgan Hooper and daughter of surgeon William Gardner. This marriage produced three further children: Elsie Lena (born 1872), Oswald (born 1874) and Sibyl (born 1876).

Mayall was declared bankrupt in September 1885 with liabilities of £22,916 12s. Id., to creditors in the form of mortgages on various freehold properties, which he was unable to rent or sell without a loss, and also shares in the Albert Palace Company, and in the ship ''Brighton'', which he valued at £600. The failure of his business was  attributed in part to the cost of fitting his premises in Bond street with electricity.<ref name=":1" /> In April 1888 his business was bought out for £34,000 by H. S. King and the Artistic Works Association Ltd. through which he became Managing Director of Mayall and Company on a 5-year contract and a fixed salary.<ref>((Cite news |date=14 April 1888 |title=Mayall and Company (Limited) |pages=1 |work=The Standard))</ref>

Mayall died 13 years later, aged 88, on 6 March 1901 at [[Southwick, West Sussex]]. He was buried on 19 March 1901 at [[Lancing, West Sussex]].

== Cultural references ==
Scenes of Mayall taking painter [[J. M. W. Turner|J.M.W.Turner]]'s daguerreotype portrait, alone and together with his companion Mrs. Booth, appear in the film ''[[Mr. Turner (film)|Mr. Turner]]''.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="250" heights="300" perrow="4">
File:Charles Dickens by John Jabez Edwin Mayall c1853-55.jpg|alt=|[[Charles Dickens]] (((c.|1853–55)))
File:John Mayall, Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter, 1855.jpg|Sergeant Dawson and His Daughter (1855)
File:Queen Victoria by JJE Mayall, 1860.png|[[Queen Victoria]] (1860)
File:Karl Marx 001.jpg|[[Karl Marx]] (1875)
</gallery>

== Publications  ==
* ((Cite book |last=Mayall |first=J. E. |title=The Royal album: portraits of the royal family of England |publisher=A. Marion |year=1860 |location=London |language=en |oclc=40818532))
* Mayall J. E. 1867. ''Mayall's Celebrities of the London Stage : A Series of Photographic Portraits in Character''. London: Messrs. A. Marion Son.<ref>((Cite book |last=Mayall |first=J.E. |title=Mayall's celebrities of the London stage : a series of photographic portraits in character |publisher=Messrs. A. Marion Son. |year=1867 |location=London |language=en |oclc=492535993))</ref>
* ((Cite book |last=Mayall |first=J.E. |title=The drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages : principally from photographs by Mayall in Her Majesty's private collection, and from the studios of the most celebrated photographers in the Kingdom |last2=Pound (Engraver) |first2=Daniel J. |publisher=The London Joint Stock Newspaper Co. |year=1859 |location=London |language=en |oclc=1250378270))<ref>((Cite book |last=Mayall |first=J.E. |title=The drawing-room portrait gallery of eminent personages : principally from photographs by Mayall in Her Majesty's private collection, and from the studios of the most celebrated photographers in the Kingdom |last2=Pound (Engraver) |first2=Daniel J. |publisher=The London Joint Stock Newspaper Co. |year=1859 |location=London |language=en |oclc=1250378270))</ref>
* ((Cite book |last=Tennyson |first=Alfred |title=The works of Alfred Tennyson poet laureate |last2=Mayall |first2=J.E. |last3=Stodart |first3=George J. |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |year=1884 |location=London |language=en |oclc=5318210))
* ((Cite book |last=Roffe |first=William |title=The casquet of literature : being a selection in poetry and prose from the works of the most admired authors |last2=Crew |first2=John J. |last3=Mayall |first3=J. E. |last4=Collins |first4=Joseph |last5=Watkins |first5=John |last6=Bonnar |first6=W. |last7=Horsburgh |first7=J. |last8=Uwins |first8=Thomas |last9=Rolls |first9=Charles |publisher=Blackie & Son |year=1875 |editor-last=Gibbon |editor-first=Charles |location=London, Melbourne |oclc=499988817))
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