There is glass in the wood-frame windows and a studio photograph of his 2-year-old boy in the living room.

There is no more life in you, she said to the old-fashioned studio photograph of her mother.

Ms. Clark insisted that studio photographs were necessary, since images taken from drivers' licences did not adequately show the victims' hair.

"Backgrounds that we've painted for studio photographs turn up four years later in a house," Miss Hogg said.

In the mid-1930s, she began offering hand-painted copies of studio photographs.

It also contained a gallery of black and white studio photographs, taken by Brooks Reynolds.

But at least they had removed the studio photograph of a royal princess which until recently had graced the entrance hall.

Mr. Deitcher first came across 19th-century studio photographs of men posing in pairs about a decade ago.

She showed Mumma a studio photograph of a five-year-old child dressed in a black velvet suit which made him look like a gooseberry.

Curiously, Coward's wallet also contained a small studio photograph of Bottomley.