Charles Guillain

Unidentified photographer, 1840s-1850s, Charles Guillain (1808-1875) [To be verified], Daguerreotype, Private collection of Christopher Wahren, LL/69312

Charles Guillain

Born: 1808, 19 May - Lorient
Died: 1875, 17 February
Gender: Male
Active: 
 
French naval captain, explorer, daguerreotypist and later admiral and Governor of New Caledonia. Lithographs bassed on his daguerreotypes taken in north east Africa were included in his book Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique, exécuté pendant les années 1846, 1847 et 1848, par le Brick le Ducouedic (1856). The book included portraits of the residents of Ras Hafun, Mogadishu, Zanzibar, and Mombasa.

Genealogy of Charles Guillain

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