Henry Mullins was the first professional photographer to move to jersey and establish a portraiture business in the early days of photography. Mullins moved to Jersey in July 1848, and set up a studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square, where he worked for 26 years. A wide collection of his photographs (now held by La Société Jersiaise) shows that there where plenty of willing people on the island prepared to pay half a guinea (promoted as “one half of that in London”) to have their portrait taken by him.
To the right is an early and brilliant quality portrait. A Mr Bolton, photographed by Henry Mullins in 1849-50. Mullins speciality was ‘Cartes de Visite’. The photographic archive of La Société contains a massive collection of these, the on line archive contains 9600 images, and the majority of these are sets of up to 16 photos taken in a single sitting.
F Bertram 
Mr Aubin 
Mr Anley 
Miss Bertram 
Tabor Egre 
Mrs Alexandre
A very early Daguerrotype (a unique image on a silvered copper plate) portrait by Henry Mullins of a woman dressed beautifully. The Daguerrotype was the first successful photographic process.
Mullins was also popular with officers (as well as of their wives and children) of the Royal Militia Island of Jersey, as it was very popular to have portraits taken. The pictures of these officers show clearly the fashion in the mid-1800s, being long hair, whiskers and beards.