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Henry Peach Robinson (1830 – 1901) was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing – joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image; an early example of photomontage.

In 1852 he exhibited an oil painting, On the Teme Near Ludlow, at the Royal Academy.

That same year he began taking photographs, and five years later, following a meeting with the photographer Hugh Welch Diamond, decided to devote himself to that medium, in 1855 opening a studio in Leamington Spa, selling portraits.

In 1856, with Rejlander, he was a founding member of the Birmingham Photographic Society.

In 1864, at the age of thirty-four, Robinson was forced to give up his studio due to ill-health from exposure to toxic photographic chemicals.

Gernsheim (1962) has shown that thereafter he preferred the easier ‘scissors and paste-pot’ method of making his combination prints, rather than the more exacting darkroom method employed by R