Kilpin's clientele was drawn mostly from a small circle of friends
and acquaintances in the professional and artistic worlds, and from
members of his immediate family. In addition to his immediate family,
a large number of Kilpin's sitters were from the professional classes.
Early on Kilpin had grasped the potential of the photograph in the
process of portrait painting. The use of photographs was a time-saving
tool for his sitters. More artistically interesting, though, was that
the camera could, at times, capture a fleeting, uninhibited moment
and that Kilpin could use.
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