Charles McKean

Portobello Photographer

Cabinet Print

  Cabinet Print by Charles McKean, Portobello - 2 ladies

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Isabel Dominy, Reading, Berkshire, England

 

Cabinet Prints

John McKean and Charles McKean

The cabinet print above is one of only two that I have seen from the Portobello studio of Charles McKean

Here are the other two:

Cabinet Print by Charles McKean, Portobello  -  2 ladies ©    Cabinet print by Charles McKean, Portobello  -  cyclist ©

When were these photos taken?

I have not found any reference to Charles McKean's Promenade Studio at Portobello in any of the old trade directories, so don't know when it operated.

Perhaps somebody will email me to give me some information about the cycle in the photograph above, that will help to date the photo.

 

John McKean and Charles McKean

Question

Was Charles related to the photographer, John McKean, who had studios at Leith from 1882 until 1903.  John McKean produced many cabinet prints.  Here is an example (front and back).

Cabinet Print by John McKean  -  Man with large eyebrows ©    The back of a Cabinet Print by John McKean  -  Man with large eyebrows ©

Answer

Thank you to Isabel Dominy, Reading Berkshire for sending me the cabinet print at the top of this page, and also the result of her research into Charles McKean.

Isabel wrote:

"I am an amateur genealogist, and that interest may have solved the mystery of the two McKeans.  They are father and son.

The 1901 census for Portobello lists:

-  John McKean, aged 41, photographer

Charles McKean, son aged 22, also a photographer."

 

Charles McKean

John McKean Other Photographers

 

 

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