Victor Prevost
Illustration — The Terrace, Central Park, NY, Albumen print, September 10, 1862. 1820–1881) was one of the earliest photographers to work in New York City. Prevost was born in La Rochelle, France.
Also recorded as Charles Henry Victor Prevost · Charles Henri Victor Prevost
Victor Prevost
Victor Prevost (1820–1881) · Public domain
- Born
- 1820. · La Rochelle.
- Died
- 1881. · Tivoli.
- Nationality
- France.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — The Terrace, Central Park, NY, Albumen print, September 10, 1862. 1820–1881) was one of the earliest photographers to work in New York City. Prevost was born in La Rochelle, France.
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He studied in France under Paul Delaroche, and learned complicated photographic printing techniques from fellow student, Gustave Le Gray. However, after setting up his own studio on Broadway and Bleecker Street (he emigrated in 1850), Prevost failed to become a commercial success. After 1857, Prevost taught art and physics in various schools. Prevost's landscapes are a subtle, and rather idiosyncratic mix of the documentary and aesthetic traditions. Aside from a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2003, his work has gone largely unknown by a contemporary public, though numerous large institutions have long collected his work. The bulk of the artist's oeuvre resides in the George Eastman House, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New York Historical Society (though the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, amongst others, also own prints and negatives).
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1820
Victor Prevost born at La Rochelle.
1881
Victor Prevost died at Tivoli.
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- Victor Prevost: Painter, Lithographer, Photographer, History of Photography, 2011
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3557520: Victor Prevost
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- 1.John Hannavy. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Taylor & Francis. 1170–1171. December 16, 2013. 978-1-135-87326-4.
- 2.W.I. Scandlin. Photo-era Magazine. Photo Era Publishing Company. VII. No. 4. 126–131. October 1901.
- 3.Solbert. Victor Prevost, Early New York Photographer. Image, Journal of Photography of George Eastman House. International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House Inc. 3. 1. 3–4. January 1954.
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His recorded language was French. One child is recorded: Emmanuel Emile Prevost.
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Cum notis integris Paulli Manucii, Petri Victorii, Joachimi Camerarii, Dionys. Ursini, & Joannis Walkeri. Recensuit, suisque animadversionibus illustravit ac emaculavit Joannes Davisius. Cantab. • Born: Victor Prevost was born in 1820 at La Rochelle.
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