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Someone knows some biographical facts about Hugh Owen. He lived in Oporto, Portugal?
Thank you!
MANUEL MAGALHAES
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Dear Manuel,
Re your enquiry about Hugh Owen (1808-1897). Owen worked as chief cashier of the Great Western Railway in Bristol (built by Brunel) in the mid 1850s. He was making Daguerreotypes before 1845 and from around 1846 started making negatives by Talbot's calotype process.
He was Bristol's best photographer and supplied around half of the photographs to the 1851 Reports of the Juries' volumes (with Ferrier) that illustrated the Great Exhibition exhibits. He used paper negatives almost exclusively but later experimented with wet-plate photography.
He was considered an expert in ceramics and left his collection to Bristol Museum.
He probably visited Portugal in 1853 or 1854. He exhibited some of his photographs from Portugal in 1854/5.They are listed in Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865. National Gallery of Canada. & online.
I have one photograph of his ( a salt print from a paper neg) almost certainly taken in Portugal. It shows a ruined farmhouse and a tree.
Please contact me if you would like further information.
There is an entry about Owen in the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography.Routledge. 2008. & online.
Best wishes
Ian Sumner
Dear Manuel,
Re your enquiry about Hugh Owen (1808-1897). Owen worked as chief cashier of the Great Western Railway in Bristol (built by Brunel) in the mid 1850s. He was making Daguerreotypes before 1845 and from around 1846 started making negatives by Talbot's calotype process.
He was Bristol's best photographer and supplied around half of the photographs to the 1851 Reports of the Juries' volumes (with Ferrier) that illustrated the Great Exhibition exhibits. He used paper negatives almost exclusively but later experimented with wet-plate photography.
He was considered an expert in ceramics and left his collection to Bristol Museum.
He probably visited Portugal in 1853 or 1854. He exhibited some of his photographs from Portugal in 1854/5.They are listed in Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865. National Gallery of Canada. & online.
I have one photograph of his ( a salt print from a paper neg) almost certainly taken in Portugal. It shows a ruined farmhouse and a tree.
Please contact me if you would like further information.
There is an entry about Owen in the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography.Routledge. 2008. & online.
Best wishes
Ian Sumner
Hi
First, sorry but my English is not very good and I have difficulty writing, but I read it and understand it fairly well.
Thanks for the info on Hugh Owen. I think he lived in Porto and made some photos here. Should be a friend of James Joseph Forester, big businessman in Port wine and photographer who lived in Porto and was drowned in the River Douro. There is another photographer, English, this time in Porto Frederik William Flower, which was also negative on paper, calotypes and worked as a businessman in Port. I think everyone should know, because the Port was and is a small town and then to Porto knew the whole society together.
there are a few photos of Hugh Owen in http://www.earlyphotography.nl/home.htm. Search "OWEN"
I already knew "Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865, National Gallery of Canada, & online.
I have several blogs http://fotohist.blogspot.com (about the history of photography)
http://albuminasetc.blogspot.com, (some of my photos collection) http://mmagalhaesfotografia.blogspot.com (about me and my work the photographer, curriculum, etc.)
Best regards and again thanks for the info
Manuel Magalhaes
Caro Manuel Magalhães
Infelizmente não disponho da informação de que necessita, no entanto é um prazer encontrá-lo e estabelecer contacto consigo, somos tão poucos a trabalhar nesta área am Portugal.
Deixo-lhe o meu email nap658@gmail.com
Os melhores cumprimentos
Nuno Pinheiro
I have hits on Hugh Owen in my database:
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There are two hits in the dissertation from North Texas University;
document at my dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dkxdlaid5mnnfm2/thesis%23.pdf?dl=0
--Dick Sullivan
Frederick William Flower was English. See https://www.bhsportugal.org/library/articles/frederick-william-flower, a paper written by a descendant and also the Wikipedia page.
By coincidence there were two Hugh Owens associated with Porto or Oporto. One was a military officer who fought in the Peninsular War and the other was the photographer. It appears that Joseph James Forrester knew them both. Owen, the military officer, accompanied him on some of his travels by boat on the Douro, while Forrester would have known Owen the photographer as they were both members of the Photographic Society. Everything I have seen confirms that Hugh Owen from Bristol did make a visit to Portugal in the 1850s. Please see an article I have just uploaded on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Owen_(photographer)
Manuel Magalhaes said:
Hi
Tradução de Português para Inglês
First, sorry but my English is not very good and I have difficulty writing, but I read it and understand it fairly well. Thanks for the info on Hugh Owen. I think he lived in Porto and made some photos here. Should be a friend of James Joseph Forester, big businessman in Port wine and photographer who lived in Porto and was drowned in the River Douro. There is another photographer, English, this time in Porto Frederik William Flower, which was also negative on paper, calotypes and worked as a businessman in Port. I think everyone should know, because the Port was and is a small town and then to Porto knew the whole society together.
there are a few photos of Hugh Owen in http://www.earlyphotography.nl/home.htm. Search "OWEN"
I already knew "Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865, National Gallery of Canada, & online.
I have several blogs http://fotohist.blogspot.com (about the history of photography)
http://albuminasetc.blogspot.com, (some of my photos collection) http://mmagalhaesfotografia.blogspot.com (about me and my work the photographer, curriculum, etc.)
Best regards and again thanks for the infoManuel Magalhaes
Here's a few references to a Hugh Owen of Bristol. They are in the link with the sources included.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ktu2i3jd7pr9jr/AAD9tQrJFcxUUxB5Gh00yuDi...
--Dick Sullivan
Andrew Shepherd said:
Frederick William Flower was English. See https://www.bhsportugal.org/library/articles/frederick-william-flower, a paper written by a descendant and also the Wikipedia page.
Centre for British Photography
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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