Hansje, the Photographer’s Daughter, in Bed and at the Wash Basin, Willem de Jong (fotograaf) (attributed to), c. 1900

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The most important achievement of late 19th-century amateur photography was the possibility it afforded of recording one’s personal life, wherein children and family took centre stage. Here the Leiden physician Willem de Jong photographed his young daughter Hansje. The doctor was a doting father to his only child, and always had his camera at the ready at home and on holidays.