Southworth & Hawes
1848 (ca)
Josiah Johnson Hawes, Albert Francis Hawes and Charles Ebenezer Hawes

Daguerreotype, 1/2 plate
10.9 x 8.3 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/4 ins) (image)
 
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Object number: NPG.80.182
 
Exhibition label (Accessed: 15 February 2018)
Born East Sudbury, Massachusetts
A self-taught artist, Josiah Hawes (left), shown with his brothers, earned his living for more than a decade as an itinerant painter of portrait miniatures and other works before turning to daguerreotypy in 1841. Two years later he joined A. Southworth & Co., the Boston daguerreian gallery that soon would be known as Southworth & Hawes. Hawes shared camera duties with Albert Sands Southworth, who cited his partner's credentials as an artist in advertisements promoting their portrait business, a partnership that endured until 1862.
 
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