'Gee-Up! Wh-a-y!'

Photographed by Frederick Holland Mares of Dublin.

Entered at Stationers' Hall on 20 June 1865.

Born in Birmingham in 1820, Frederick Holland Mares was the son of John Mares, a cabinet maker, and his wife Caroline Matilda née Holland.

On 10 August 1848 his sister Hannah married Michael Burr at St Martin's in Birmingham.

For a while Frederick was in business with his brother-in-law Michael Burr but their partnership was dissolved on 29 September 1860. They had up to this point been 'carrying on business as Manufacturers of Stereoscopic Slides and Photographic Artists, at No. 26, Ladywood-lane, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick.'

Frederick subsequently established a studio in Dublin. By the time the census was taken in 1881 he had returned to England and was living at Lewisham in South London. In 1891 he was an 'Army Pensioner' living at Worthing in Sussex.

He died at Sutton in Surrey on 17 October 1904, leaving an estate valued at £212.