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Last Name Beard

Given Name Richard

alt. Names R. B. ;

Marriage

Children photographer John

Year born 1801 or 1802 in East Stonehouse, Devon

Year died 1885

Place of death in Hampstead and buried at Hampstead Cemetery

Father's occupation Richard Bowden Beard (1773-1840) and his wife, Elizabeth (1775-1818)

Relatives

Education former coal merchant turned entrepreneur

Country of Activity Ireland

Worked for Henry Mayhew: London Labor & the London Poor (1851, originally published in the Morning Chronicle 1849/50) ;

Patronage Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, Dublin (with B's photogr. studio) ;

Collaborators copper engraver, gaguerreotypist, and photographer ->Francis Stewart Beatty ; with his son John & Alexander Wolcott, an instrument maker to market a photographical camera ; chemist John Frederick Goddard ;

Techniques early forms of photography, esp.daguerreotype portraits; experiments in photo-engraving & colouring exp.

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wendell_Phillips_daguerreotype_by_Richard_Beard_1841.jpg

Archival sources http://www.source.ie/issues/issues0120/issue04/is04artfrabea.html

Published sources Peter Welch: Dublin's first look into the camera, Dublin Historical Record 62 (2009): 38-41 & 47 ;

other R. B. described himself in 1851 as a "photographic artist" and exhibited at The Great Exhibition in London 1851, later lost interest in photography & became coal dealer.

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