Josiah Johnson Hawes

Josiah Johnson Hawes studied at Phillips Academy. Places of work recorded in the authority are Boston. Work by Josiah Johnson Hawes is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum.

• Illustration — School Street, Boston, 1850s, National Gallery of Art J.J. Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud. In 1843 Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on Tremont Row, in Boston's Scollay Square. The studio produced daguerreotype portraits of many notables, including Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, and others. The studio rooms overlooked "a fine orchard, belonging to the Gardiner Greene estate. From these windows, facing Scollay Sq., we looked on the church and gardens of Brattle Street" In 1849 Hawes married Nancy Niles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward. After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s. In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."

• Illustration — Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether, 1847 • Illustration — Young girl with portrait of George Washington, c. 1850 • Illustration — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., c. 1850-1856 • Illustration — Lajos Kossuth, 1851 • Illustration — Unidentified woman, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 • Illustration — Portrait of J.J. Hawes and his daughter Marion, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 • Illustration — View of Brattle St., 1855 • Illustration — Boston Common, c. 1875 • Illustration — Portrait of Robert Browning, c. 1860s-1880s • Illustration — View of Boston, c. 1860s-1880s • Illustration — Daniel Webster, c. 1883 • Illustration — Lemuel Shaw, c. 1883 • Illustration — Self-portrait, c. 1890 • Illustration — Self-portrait, c. 1890 • Illustration — Self-portrait, c. 1895