Born: ? - England Died: 1872 - England Gender: Male Active: Ceylon
Lawton arrived in Ceylon around 1860 working for a trading company H.C. Byrde and Co in Kandy. In 1866 he opened a studio in Kandy on Castle Hill Street. There is a published catalog of his photographic work (1868). In 1870 the Ceylon Archaeological Committee commissioned Lawton to photograph the ruins at Anuradhapura, Mihintale, Polonnaruwa and Sigiriya. These photographs became his signature work. Due to ill health he left Ceylon in 1872 and the studio continued selling Lawton's photographs under the direction of his wife Helen. The firm was taken over by R. Charter in 1885. His photographs appear in ‘Architectural Remains Anuradhapura, Ceylon: the Dugabas and Certain Other Ancient Ruined Structures‘ by James Smither, published in 1894.
Joseph Lawton
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