Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted

London, 1856. Bennett, William Sterndale (1816-75). Composer, conductor, pianist and music educator, called "the most distinguished composer of the early Victorian era" (Temperley, Lectures on Musical Life-William Sterndale Bennett [2006], p. 3); professor of music at the University of Cambridge; friend of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann; founding president of the Bach Society. 1858. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm.