1841 | Europe - Ireland![]() Beard Studio, 1860 (ca), Portrait of Richard Beard, Carte de visite, Private collection of Geoffrey Batchen, | The first Daguerreotype studio in Ireland opens in Dublin above "the Rotunda". It was probably under the auspices of Richard Beard but this is not certain. On 23rd April 1842 an advertisement appeared announcing that Le Chevalier Alexander Doussin Dubreuil had commenced practice at this address. |