![]() In the early 1850s he learned the wet-collodion and waxed-paper processes at great speed with Nicholas Henneman in London, and then changed his business to that of a photography studio. He set up as a portraitist in the industrial Midlands town of Wolverhampton, probably around 1846. ![]() In the 1850s he abandoned his original profession as a painter and portrait miniaturist, apparently after seeing how well a photograph captured the fold of a sleeve. In the 1830s, he relocated to England, initially settling in Lincoln, England. During his youth, his family moved to the Swedish-speaking community in Rauma, Grand Duchy of Finland (then part of Russia). He was the son of Carl Gustaf Rejlander, a stonemason and Swedish Army Officer. According to his naturalisation papers, Rejlander was born in Stockholm on 19 October 1813.
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