F. Maxwell Lyte

Unknown (British), 1850 (ca), F. Maxwell Lyte as a Young Man, Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/39132

F. Maxwell Lyte

Born: Farnham Maxwell Lyte
Other: Maxwell Lyte
Other: F. Maxwell-Lyte

Born: 1828, 10 January - Great Britain, Devon, Lower Brixham
Died: 1906, 4 March - Great Britain, London, Kensington
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
Mining engineer by profession but a user and innovator of photographic processes. For health reasons he lived in France from 1853 until 1880 and became interested in photography in the company of John Stewart and Jean-Jacques Heilmann. He helped to found the Société Française de Photographie in 1854 and was a member of the Photographic Society of Great Britain. Through the 1850s and 60s he exhibited widely showing his prints of the Pyrenees.
 
Hélène Saule-Sorbé "Les Pyrénées photographiées de Farnham Maxwell Lyte", Bulletin de la Société Ramond, 2004

Genealogy of F. Maxwell Lyte

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