XJF448275 Alexis Benoist Soyer, print made by Henry Bryan Hall, 1849 (engraving) by Soyer, Elizabeth Emma (1813-1842) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alexis Benoist Soyer (1810-1858) was a French chef who became the most celebrated cook in Victorian England; He invented a soup kitchen in 1847 in an attempt to alleviate the suffering during the Irish potato famine and also revolutionised catering standards in the British army during the Crimean war; The portrait from which this print is taken was by his wife, Elizabeth Soyer (nee Jones);); English, out of copyright.