| Dates: | 1802 - 1885 | | Born: | Great Britain, London | | Died: | Great Britain, London | | Gender: | Male |
The first British portrait photographer obtaining a license from Daguerre in 1841 for 150 pounds. He established his studio on the roof of the Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street, London and hired staff to take and process the portraits.
The original Daguerreotypes by Richard Beard on which the woodcuts for Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London: Charles Griffin, and Company, 1861) have not been located. In a posting to the Yahoo Photo-History group (11 March 2012) Roger Taylor wrote that the original woodblocks may be in the St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EE, Tel: 020 7353 4660. Further details requested.Preparing biographies
General reading
Mayhew, Henry, 1861-62, London Labour and the Labouring Poor, (London: Charles Griffin, and Company) [4 vols] [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Scott, C G, 1991, ‘Richard Beard, Newton Abbott, and the Growth of Photography‘, History of Photography, vol.15, no.1 , pp.13-15 [Δ]
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