RA Collection: People and Organisations
Miniature-painter; inventor of the ‘pistolgraph’, a pistol-shaped camera. He was arrested when using this to take a photograph of Queen Victoria.
Born: 1806
Died: 1876
Thomas Skaife
Exposé Of The Royal Academy Of Arts Where "Blockheads In Parties Hide Their Want Of Sense, And Strut In Corporate Consequence.,' Sir Martin Archer Shee. - By Thomas Skaife. - Illustrated By Donkeiana. - - London:: 1854.
07/3787
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