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CHARLES RICHARD MEADE. Portrait of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, 1848. 6 3/16 × 4 ½ inches. Daguerreotype with applied color.
Charles Richard Meade (1826–1858) began hisphotography career in Albany, New York, in 1842. After?opening “Daguerrean Depots,” as the studios were called,with his brother Henry in Albany, Buffalo, Troy, and Saratoga?Springs, the Meade Brothers opened a grand studio onBroadway in New York City. The Broadway studio was?the first combined daguerreotype studio and gallery in theUnited States; the brothers later opened a branch of the?studio and gallery in Brooklyn. The main attraction at MeadeBrothers was the gallery: a public display of daguerreotypes?of famous people they had photographed. At various timesbetween 1848 and 1854, Charles Meade traveled and?photographed in Europe. He died just short of his thirty-secondbirthday after a long illness, reputedly caused by his?extensive exposure to photography chemicals.1
COURTESY The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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1 www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1962/charles-richard-meade-american-1826-1858/