# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-washington-wilson-q2179710
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:36:46.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-washington-wilson-q2179710"
name: "George Washington Wilson"
slug: "george-washington-wilson-q2179710"
description: "George Washington Wilson was a pioneering Scottish photographer. In 1849, he began a career as a portrait miniaturist, switching to portrait photography in 1852. He received a contract to photograph the Royal Family, working for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He pioneered various techniques for outdoor photography and the mass production of photographic prints as he gradually began to largely do landscape photography in the 1860s. By 1864, he claimed to have sold over half a million copies."
tagline: "Scottish painter and photographer (1823-1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Washington_Wilson_c.1865.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1823-02-07"
deathDate: "1893-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.75
  momentum:             0.3663003663003663
  historical:           7.210188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Джордж Вашингтон Вілсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1)"
    title: "جورج ويلسون (مصور)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Wilson"
    title: "George Washington Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2179710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump