Jason Wright

"This has been for sale for years. It is not an 1840 dag - the clothing fashion is all wrong for even the early 1840's and you can see that the plate praparation is wrong (too finely polished and likely gold chloride usec given the tone) and the…"

Hi Jason, Wonderful to see what a great portrait. As I'm sure you know your John Mansell (1779-1858) was one of 11 children of Thomas Mansell and Martha Price. Thomas Lukis Mansell (1809-1879) was his nephew and an important Guernsey amateur photographer. The daguerreotype is unlikely to have been made by TLM as he did not practice photography professionally and your portrait looks like it may have been produced by one of the commercial photographers operating in the island at the time. I've traced four such photographers in Guernsey in 1848. Contact me via http://societe-jersiaise.org/photographic-archive if you would like more info. Best, Gareth.

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Gareth Syvret October 15, 2018 10:43

Hi Jason, Wonderful to see what a great portrait. As I'm sure you know your John Mansell (1779-1858) was one of 11 children of Thomas Mansell and Martha Price. Thomas Lukis Mansell (1809-1879) was his nephew and an important Guernsey amateur photographer. The daguerreotype is unlikely to have been made by TLM as he did not practice photography professionally and your portrait looks like it may have been produced by one of the commercial photographers operating in the island at the time. I've traced four such photographers in Guernsey in 1848. Contact me via http://societe-jersiaise.org/photographic-archive if you would like more info. Best, Gareth.

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