| Dates: | 1821 (ca) - 1864, 2 March | | Died: | India, Calcutta |
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John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Commercial, India
Daguerreotypist and photographer, 7 Esplanade Row, Calcutta 1863-4.
Advertising as an ‘artist’ in 1865 directory (unchecked further). [Note. His carte-de-visite logo shows an artist’s palette rather than a camera].
Joined Bengal Photographic Society February 1862.[1]
Could this be the same as the British Journal of Photography’s ‘special correspondent in the East’ mentioned by Samuel Bourne? [2]
Died of cholera 2 Mar 1864[3] and buried the same day in the Military Burial Ground, Fort William; profession given as ‘portrait painter and photographer.’ Second forename of ‘Weston’ supplied in wills and probate by his widow Julia.[4]
Footnotes
- Λ Journal of the Bengal Photographic Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1 May 1862.
- Λ British Journal of Photography, 7 December 1866, p. 583.
- Λ IOR/N/1/107 f. 130.
- Λ IOR/L/AG/34/29/109 ff. 482-483.
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