John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Commercial, Sri Lanka
Nephew of C.A. Lorenz; Signaller, Telegraph Department, Galle, 1861-5; Resigned from government service to set up photographic business in Galle, 1866-80s. Studio at 32 Pedlar Street, Galle, c.1866-c.72; advertising ‘The new cabinet pictures and every variety of card portraits and positives for cases, frames, lockets, brooches and rings’, as well as ‘views of buildings...photographic views of Galle, Matura, Kandy, Gampolla and Rambodde; and of native characters, in great variety’.[1] Prince’s Gate, Colombo c.1874; 42 Second Cross Street, Pettah, Colombo c.1876-c.78;[2] Dam Street, Small Pass, c.1880- . Views shown at Paris Exhibition of 1900.[3] See also entry in Arnold Wright, Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon (1907).
Footnotes
- Λ Ferguson’s Ceylon Directory, 1866-68.
- Λ Ferguson’s Ceylon Directory, 1876-78.
- Λ Arnold Wright, Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon (1907).
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