REAR ADMIRAL PAUL HENRY BASTEDO ( 1887-1951), portrait photo. It was taken by a famous London Photographer. Carl ( 1851-1931) or Herbert (1879-1943) VANDYK. PHOTO IS ALSO, hand signed by VANDYK.. It measure 7 1/2" X 9 1/2", matte is 9 1/4 X 11 1/2. Circa, very early 20th century.

CONDITION: with edge and corner wear, and LIGHT age toning to matte, some foxing to margin and on rear of photograph .

SOME HISTORY

Carl Vandyk, a successful portrait photographer. His most important images, registered for copyright at Stationers' Hall, were a series of portraits of the king of Siam and his family (1902), the shah of Persia and members of his entourage (1902), and William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill), the American frontier scout and showman (1903), as well as the opera singers Alice Nielson (1904) and Enrico Caruso (1905). The portrait of the gaikwar of Baroda, which was much published as part of the campaign to emphasize the gaikwar's loyalty to the crown, is perhaps the best-known image credited to Carl Vandyk.

Herbert Vandyk ( Carl's eldest son) accumulated twenty-two royal warrants, a result of his having photographed possibly more visiting royalties than any other London photographer. A particularly important series of the crown prince of Serbia (later King Alexander II of Yugoslavia) was made shortly after the prince's epic flight at the head of his defeated army across the mountains into Albania. At the time of the sitting the prince had no country and Vandyk's portraits, published on 8 April 1916 in The Illustrated London News under the title ‘Welcomed to London: a royal ally from the Near East’, contributed greatly to the propaganda campaign that led to the creation of the new state of the south Slavs—Yugoslavia.