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Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896)

Professions: Photographer

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    MATHEW BRADY (1823-1896)

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    BRADY, MATHEW (1823-1896); GARDNER, ALEXANDER (1821-1882) Group of 19 photographs (including one duplicate), comprising 18 of Union Off

    BRADY, MATHEW (1823-1896); GARDNER, ALEXANDER (1821-1882) Group of 19 photographs (including one duplicate), comprising 18 of Union Off

Mathew B. Brady Biography

(b Warren County, NY, 1823; d New York, 15 Jan 1896). American photographer. At the age of 16 he left his home town and moved to nearby Saratoga. There he learnt how to manufacture jewellery cases and met William Page, who taught him the techniques of painting. Impressed by his ability, Page took Brady to New York in 1841 to study with Samuel F. B. Morse at the Academy of Design, and to attend Morse’s school of daguerreotypy; there Brady learnt the details of photographic technique. After experimenting with the medium from 1841 to 1843, Brady set up his Daguerrean Miniature Gallery in New York (1844), where he both took and exhibited daguerreotypes. Very soon he established a considerable reputation and in 1845 won first prize in two classes of the daguerreotype competition run by the American Institute. He concentrated on photographic portraits, especially of famous contemporary Americans, such as the statesman Henry Clay (1849; Washington, DC, Lib. Congr.). In 1847, with his business flourishing, he opened a second studio, in Washington, DC, and in 1850 published his Gallery of Illustrious Americans (New York). These were lithographic portraits of eminent Americans, such as General Winfield Scott and Millard Fillmore, taken from Brady’s original daguerreotypes.

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