Edward Wyllie

Edward Arthur Sanders Wyllie (28 January 1848^[1] – 6 March 1911) was a British medium and spirit photographer.^[2]

Alleged spirit photograph produced by Wyllie

Wyllie was born in Calcutta, British India, as a British subject, and moved to England as a small boy.^[3] He moved to California in 1886 to work as a photographer. He also worked as a medium and spirit photographer. His spirit photographs were exposed as frauds.^[4][5] Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of "palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate" which he confessed to.^[6]

He died in London in 1911.^{[citation needed]}