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{{short description|Irish portrait photographer}}
{{about|the photographer|the African-American slave and American Revolutionary War double agent|James Armistead Lafayette}}
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[[Image:Sarah-Bernhardt (Hamlet).jpg|thumb|[[Sarah Bernhardt]] as [[Hamlet]], with [[Yorick]]'s skull. (Photographer: James Lafayette. c.&nbsp;1885–1900).]]

'''James Lafayette''' was the pseudonym of '''James Stack Lauder''' (1853–1923).<ref name="anon">Anon. (1990).</ref> He was a late [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian period|Edwardian]] portrait photographer, and managing director from 1898 to 1923 of a company in [[Dublin]] specializing in society photographs, Lafayette Ltd.<ref name="anon"/>
In 1887, he became the first Irish photographer to be granted a [[Royal Warrant of Appointment (United Kingdom)|royal warrant]].<ref name="Meadows 2004">Meadows (2004)</ref>

==Collections==

While thousands of images were credited to Lafayette studios, only those 649 photographs which were registered for copyright bear his signature as author.<ref name="Meadows 2004"/> These are now held in the [[Public Record Office]], in [[Kew]], [[London]].<ref name="Meadows 2004"/>  The Lafayette Collection at London's [[Victoria & Albert Museum]] consists of 3,500 glass plate and celluloid negatives.<ref name="Meadows 1990">Meadows (1990).</ref> A further collection of 30,000 to 40,000 nitrate negatives is at London's [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]].<ref name="Meadows 1990"/> Further collections are in the [[Royal Archives]] at [[Windsor Castle]]; and in private hands in [[Dublin]].<ref name="Meadows 2004"/>

==Notes and references==

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* Anon, 1990. V&A. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/back_dev.php Brief history of the Lafayette Studio] Retrieved: 5 January 2008. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
* Meadows, Jane. 1990. V&A. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1158_lafayette/back_biog.php James Lafayette biography] Retrieved: 5 January 2008. London: Victoria & Albert Museum.
* Meadows, Jane. 2004. "Lauder, James Stack (1853–1923)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65307 Online edition] Retrieved: 6 January 2008.

==External links==
{{commons category|Lafayette Studio}}
* [http://www.lafayette.org.uk/ The Lafayette Negative Archive]
* [http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/incalmprose Lafayette at the Devonshire House Ball 1897]

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