Theye 1989: 28; Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, 2008 ; Terry Bennett: History of Photography in China, vol. 2: Western Photographers 1861-1879 (London 2010);
W. P. F. was a British photographer active in Asia in the 1860s-1870s. Floyd first appears in China in 1863, in the employment of the Shanghai photographers Shannon & Co.; in 1864, Floyd moved to Macau to establish his own studio along the Praya Grande. By 1866 he had transferred to Hong Kong to work as a photographer for Silveira & Co. By 1868 trading under the business titles of both W.P. Floyd & Co. and the Victoria Photographic Gallery, situated at 62 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong. He left Hong Kong in 1874, his business & premises taken over by Emil Rusfeldt).
Further Place of Activity: United Kingdom.
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