Diamond Cameos

Henry Mullins moved to Jersey from London in 1848 setting up a studio called the “Royal Saloon”. In the beginning, he worked with another man but by 1849 he was working alone in the same studio he would end up working in for the next 26 years.

He quite famously did Diamond Cameos, the four headshots of the subjects were presented in a diamond shape using a process in which four separate portraits of the same subject are printed on a carte-de-visite.

His Diamond Cameos:

My attempt:

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