An original cabinet card portrait by the well-known Lowthian Brothers of Freeman Street, Grimsby.
The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches).
“I wrote about this being my grandfather's boat - he was the engineer. It was first registered as INS 11 and is pronounced Pit-gay-vnay not Pit-gav-enny.”
Libby Lamb, 21 October 2026
“My grandfather was the engineer on this drifter when she was fishing out of Lossiemouth and then working as a minesweeper at Scapa Flow from 1915.”
Libby Lamb, 20 October 2026
“Stuart sent me a framed photo of the above photo. He was a dear friend of many years through first knowing his dear wife and lovely son.It is with great saddnessto learn of Stuarts death we emailed regularly ,he was a humble lovely person.I am chronically sick and bedbound ,Stuart's emails were always a pleasure to read and reply to.He was a nan of great integrity and humilityand the world has been better for him being part of itHow lovely ifa BleuePlaque could be erected fir himit is richly deserved.A lovely man who will be n greatly missed”
Cathy James, 19 October 2026
Unknown Victorian boy by Lowthian Bros. c1890s
Colourised – Portrait of a lady by Lowthian Bros. of Grimsby c1890s
Portrait of a young Grimsby man by Lowthian Bros. c1890s
Portrait of a young Grimsby man by Lowthian Bros. (detail) c1890s
A charming portrait of a mother and her two children looking at a book c1890s
‘Lady with hat’; a portrait by Lowthian Bros. c1890s
