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Braga, François
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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- Amateur / Connected
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Life dates
Palanzo [Lombardy, IT], c. 1810 - ?, 1883 >
Activity
1839 * - 1857 Gand, Rue des Champs, 67
Optician at this address from 1829. Braga took over the long established business owned by his late grandfather, also François Braga (+ Ghent, 5.3.1833), stocking "all types of spectacles, optical and mathematical instruments, etc." (Le Messager de Gand, 6.4.1834). Bought a camera from Alphonse Giroux in Paris and made his first daguerreotype together with Joseph Pelizzaro on 22.10.1839 at Philippe Van de Velde’s town house: a view of the tower and church of Saint-Nicolas with surrounding buildings. For further details, see entry for Joseph Pelizzaro. Recorded in Ghent in May 1853, aged 43 and in October 1856 aged 46. "Braga brothers, opticians" in 1866. Left Ghent for his native Palanzo [IT] on 7.11.1883.
Optician at this address from 1829. Braga took over the long established business owned by his late grandfather, also François Braga (+ Ghent, 5.3.1833), stocking "all types of spectacles, optical and mathematical instruments, etc." (Le Messager de Gand, 6.4.1834). Bought a camera from Alphonse Giroux in Paris and made his first daguerreotype together with Joseph Pelizzaro on 22.10.1839 at Philippe Van de Velde’s town house: a view of the tower and church of Saint-Nicolas with surrounding buildings. For further details, see entry for Joseph Pelizzaro. Recorded in Ghent in May 1853, aged 43 and in October 1856 aged 46. "Braga brothers, opticians" in 1866. Left Ghent for his native Palanzo [IT] on 7.11.1883.
Locations
1839 * - 1857 Gand, Rue des Champs, 67
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Bibliography/Webography
CALLE, Storm, DE DONCKER, Tim & LACHAERT, Pieter-Jan. "Gent in een album en aan de muur. Italiaanse prentenhandelaars in Gent in de 19de eeuw" in Gentse geschiedenissen ofte, nieuwe historiën uit de oudheid der stad en illustere plaatsen omtrent, Ghent, 2017, pp. 275-284.
BALaT - Braga, François: http://balat.kikirpa.be/people.php?priref=240647
BALaT - Braga, François: http://balat.kikirpa.be/people.php?priref=240647
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#425
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Dates of creation/revision
MCC revised 25.1.2019; SFJ revised 22.1.2021 & 18.4.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght