In 1861 there was an outcome that the Polytechnic's Committee may not have fully foreseen, despite their custom of circulating the competition announcements widely outside Cornwall: 'Mr Gutteres entered more of his images, but they were eclipsed in public attention by a major display submitted by Mr H P Robinson of Leamington' (Henry Peach Robinson, from Leamington, Warwickshire, rapidly becoming one of Victorian England's leading romantic photographers).