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Julian Scott (1846-1901) Julian Scott was born in Vermont the son of a watchmaker and jeweler. At the onset of the Civil War, the fifteen-year-old Scott became a drummer in the 3rd Vermont, which saw action in the Battle of Lee’s Mills. He ignored the heavy fire to save the lives of 9 wounded men, and was, as a result, awarded the Medal of Honor, thus becoming the first individual soldier to be so [...] Click here to continue reading. Martha Ann and Ray Samuel Collection When Martha Ann Brett and Ray Samuel married in 1946, both knew they wished to collect paintings but were also aware of the fact that their newlywed budget would not stretch to include works by the French Impressionists. However, such good friends as NewOrleans dealer Albert Lieutaud, his wife, Lily, and Naomi Marshall suggested that Louisiana art, both period and contemporary, had largely been ignored, was of a [...] Click here to continue reading. Moses B. Russell (1809-1884) Moses B. Russell, portrait and miniature portrait painter, and daguerreotypist, born in Woodstock, New Hampshire on April 5, 1809. He began work in Boston in 1833 where he exhibited at the Boston Anthenaeum, the Harding Gallery, the Boston Art Association, and the Boston Mechanics Association. His 1841 entry in the BMA exhibition, he won a silver medal for several of the miniatures described as, “undoubtedly the best in the Exhibition.” [...] Click here to continue reading. Ernest J. Bellocq (1873 to 1949), Photographer Little is known about the life of New Orleans commercial photographer Ernest J. Bellocq and his involvement with photographing prostitutes of Storyville, the Red Light District of New Orleans. Whether it was Bellocq who scratched out the faces of the prostitutes on glass plate negatives remains a mystery. It has been speculated that he scratched out their faces to protect the identity of the Storyville girls. After [...] Click here to continue reading. John Francis E. Prudhomme (1817-1884) John Prudhomme was an engraver as well as a daguerreotypist who was a member of the National Academy and began work in New York City in 1850. After 1852, Prudhomme closed his New York City gallery and returned to engraving, this time for the U.S. government. John Plumbe Jr. An early practitioner of daguerreotypes, John Plumbe Jr. established the first franchised daguerreian galleries in the United States, with branches in more than fourteen major cities. His international exploits included galleries in Paris, France and Liverpool, England. Plumbe learned the art of daguerreotypy in June, 1840, in Washington, D.C. By May of 1841, he was listed as a professor of photography at the U.S. Photographic Institute in Boston. Plumbe made many [...] Click here to continue reading. Photomicrograph A photograph made through a microscope. Photogravure – A Photographic Process A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three steps: taking the picture; producing a printing plate of the image; and printing the image on paper. The basic [...] Click here to continue reading. Peter Neff (1828 to 1903) Peter Neff was a native of Coshocton County, Ohio, and attended both Yale and Woodward College before graduating from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1849. Between 1853 and 1854 Neff closely collaborated with Hamilton Neff, a Professor of Chemistry at Kenyon to develop what is generally acknowledged to be the first successful tintype photographs in America. In 1856, Neff acquired the patent for making “ferrotype” or “melainotype” plates, [...] Click here to continue reading. Eadweard Muybridge An eccentric British photographic artist with a seemingly unpronounceable name became a household word in 1878. After six years of experimentation, Eadweard Muybridge (1830 to 1904) demonstrated that all four hooves of a horse momentarily leave the ground at a full gallop. With 50 cameras all armed with electrically triggered shutters, Muybridge introduced stop motion photography to a skeptical nineteenth century. California Governor Leland Stanford underwrote the “flying horse” demonstration, which took [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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