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Daguerre, Louis(-Jacques-Mandé)
(b Cormeilles-en-Parisis, nr Paris, 18 Nov 1787; d Bry-sur-Marne, Paris, 10 July 1851). French photographer, inventor, painter and stage designer. He began his artistic training c. 1800 as an architect’s apprentice. After training as a draughtsman, he entered the studio of Ignace-Eugène-Marie Degotti (d 1824), stage designer at the Paris Opéra. In 1807 he became an assistant to Pierre Prévost (1764–1823) in the production of immense panorama paintings, which were popular as public entertainment spectacles. Daguerre exhibited his first independent work at the Salon of 1814, Interior of a Chapel of the Church of the Feuillants, Paris (Paris, Louvre). During the next twenty-six years he exhibited six works at the Salon and received the Légion d’honneur in 1824 for Holyrood Chapel by Moonlight (untraced; another version Liverpool, Walker A.G.; see fig.), a work combining meticulous attention to detail with a characteristic luminosity. Ten of his drawings were reproduced in the series Voyages pittoresques et romantiques en l’ancienne France (1820–78).
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