Pharmaceutical chemist and inventor of Goddard’s patent non-mercurial silver plate powder, Joseph Goddard (far right) with his son Joseph Wallis, wife Eliza, daughters Mary and Emily and family friends, standing outside the south-facing front entrance to ‘Avenue Road House’ or ‘Avenue Villa’, built in the late 1850s. The house was demolished in the early 1970s to allow the development of Avenue Gardens.
This may be nearer to 1875. It shows chemist Joseph Goddard with his two daughters in front of a (fairly young) cedar tree with the southern aspect of Avenue Road House in the background. There may also be a gardener obscured by another young tree in the shrub border!