Edward Bracher (1823 – 31 May 1887) was a pioneering British photographer based in Oxford, England.Photographers in the High, High Street, Oxford, UK.
Bracher was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire.1861 England Census He had photographic premises at 26 High Street, Oxford from 1852 to 1863.Stephanie Jenkins, Oxford Photographers, Oxfordshire-L Archives, 21 February 2004.Henry W Taunt: the business , English Heritage, UK. He worked mainly on portraits and commissioned landscapes, advertising as the "Oxford University Portrait Rooms" with "Portraits takes on Ivory, Paper, and Glass" as well as "Gentlemen's Mansions & Churches Photographed".Oxford University Portrait Rooms, Alden's Illustrated Family Miscellany and Oxford Monthly Record, Vol. XI, No. 122, October 1864. Bracher lived over the premises with his wife and two children.The High, Oxford: 24–31 , High Street, Oxford , UK.
Henry Taunt, later another well-known photographer, joined Bracher at the age of 14 as a member of staff in 1856.Bryan Brown (editor), The England of Henry Taunt: Victorian photographer. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1973, page x. .
In 1863, Bracher sold his business to the Oxford booksellers and stationers, Wheeler and Day.Graham Diprose and Jeff Robins, The River Thames Revisited: In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt. Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007, page 12. . The business transferred to 106 High Street, but Taunt stayed at the original premises as photographic manager for a brief period.
Bracher died at his brother's residence in Sedgehill, Reading, aged 64.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
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