Born: 1850 (ca) - Cuba Died: 1926, 18 October - US, NY, New York Gender: Male Active: US
Born in Cuba, studied painting in England and then trained with Napoleon Sarony in New York. In 1870 he opened his owned studio taking with him Sarony's background painter Lafayette Seavey. Gained prominance in New Society with a vast display of backgrounds and by 1878 he was making $100,000 a year. He photographed the events of the well-to-do and the Museum of the City of New York has a collection of his photographs covering the Vanderbilt Ball, in their house at 53rd St and Fifth Ave, on 26 March 1883. In 1893 for uncertain reasons he closed his business at 707 Broadway and became a recluse.
Jose Mora
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