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He was also depicted in a Tim Titt cartoon published in <i>The Tatler</i> ca.1930 showing members of the D'Oyly Carte administrative staff playing members of the company.\n\nThe photogapher and film-maker Henry Walter Barnett (1862-1934), born in Sydney, Australia, established a photographic business in Tasmania that he sold in 1884 before working in London, where he was employed by the society photographer W.D. Downey, and travelling in the United States. In 1885 he opened the Falk Studios in Sydney and another in Melbourne in 1895. Moving to London in 1897 he established a photography studio at Hyde Park Corner, and later a second studio in Knightsbridge. He sold his London studios in 1920 and moved to Dieppe where he took this photograph. He died in Nice aged 71.\n\n\n","physicalDescription":"Photographic portrait, half-length, face-on, of J.J. 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