| Dates: | 1788 - 1865 | | Active: | UK |
Preparing biographies
Alexander was probably lured into photography through the influence of close family members. His nephew was the photographic pioneer John Dillwyn Llewelyn, who married Talbot’s cousin Emma Thomasina Llewelyn, herself a photographer. By the time Alexander took up photography in the 1850s he was a well-established member of Ipswich society, having founded a hospital and a temperance hall. Elected a member of the Photographic Society in London in 1853, Alexander used both calotype and collodion processes, although he publicly exhibited only works made from glass plates. A substantial body of his work was dispersed at auction at Sotheby’s, London.
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included here with permission.
Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
SHARED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION PROJECT
We welcome institutions and scholars willing to test the sharing of biographies for the benefit of the photo-history community. The biography above is a part of this trial.
If you find any errors please email us details so they can be corrected as soon as possible. |
|
| | Premium content for those who want to understand photography |
References are available for subscribers.There is so much more to explore when you subscribe.
Subscriptions
| |
Family history
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
alan@luminous-lint.com |
|
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint