Alvan Clark (miniaturist), n.d., Samuel A. Bemis, Painting on ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/46742
Samuel A. Bemis
Other: S.A. Bemis Other: Samuel Bemis
Born: 1793, 27 June - US, VT, Putney Died: 1881, 22 May - US, NH, Hart's Location Gender: Male Active: US
Boston dentist and amateur daguerreotypist active from April 1840 through October 1843. He also created one photomicrograph daguerreotype in 1854 (not extant). All extant images are "views" - scenic images. About half were taken in Bemis‘s beloved White Mountains in New Hampshire, where he was most active. No known portraiture exists. All but one view are horizontal in format and all are laterally reversed.
[Contributed by Robert W. Bermudes, Jr.]
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Alvan Clark (miniaturist), n.d., Samuel A. Bemis, Painting on ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, LL/46742
