Southworth & Hawes, active 1843 - 1862 Search this
Albert Sands Southworth, 12 Mar 1811 - 3 Mar 1894 Search this
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 Search this
Sitter:
Josiah Johnson Hawes, 20 Feb 1808 - 7 Aug 1901 Search this
Albert Francis Hawes, 19 Apr 1821 - 14 Feb 1897 Search this
Charles Ebenezer Hawes, 11 Feb 1816 - 27 Feb 1897 Search this
Medium:
Half-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Image/Sight: 9.5 × 7.6 cm (3 3/4 × 3")
Mat (brass): 12.6 × 10.6 cm (4 15/16 × 4 3/16")
Case open: 13.9 × 24 × 1.2 cm (5 1/2 × 9 7/16 × 1/2")
Case closed: 13.9 × 12 × 2 cm (5 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 13/16")
Type:
Photograph
Date:
c. 1845–1848
Exhibition Label:
A self-taught artist, Josiah Johnson Hawes earned his living as an itinerant painter of portrait miniatures before devoting himself to daguerreotypy in 1841. Two years later, he became a full partner with Albert Sands Southworth in the preeminent Boston daguerreian studio known thereafter as Southworth & Hawes.
This daguerreotype, which remained in the Hawes family for three generations, pictures Josiah Hawes with two of his brothers, both of whom also worked for a time as photographers in Massachusetts. Albert established a studio—Hawes Brothers—in Taunton and Charles operated a photography business in New Bedford.
Josiah Johnson Hawes 1808–1901 Albert Francis Hawes 1821–1897 Charles Ebenezer Hawes 1816–1897 Josiah Johnson Hawes, un artista autodidacta, se ganaba la vida como pintor itinerante de retratos miniatura antes de dedicarse al daguerrotipo en 1841. Dos años más tarde, junto con Albert Sands Southworth, se convirtió en socio del destacado estudio de daguerrotipo de Boston que, en adelante, sería conocido como Southworth & Hawes.
En este daguerrotipo, que permaneció en la familia Hawes durante tres generaciones, puede verse a Josiah Hawes con dos de sus hermanos, que también trabajaron un tiempo como fotógrafos en Massachusetts. Albert estableció un estudio —Hawes Brothers— en Tauton, y Charles dirigía un negocio de fotografía en New Bedford.
