Ernest Edwards

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Ernest Edwards is recorded as active at 20 Baker Street, W. from 1864-1868. He specialised in portraiture and topographical photography. In 1869 he invented the heliotype, a form of photography which was first used in 1872 to provide illustrations for Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, a copy of which is in the Academy's Historic Book Collection.