Daems, Jean-Baptiste

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  • Photographie Artistique Belge

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  • Professional

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Life dates

Brussels, 1837 - Brussels, 1875

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1863 * - 1867 Bruxelles, Montagne de la Cour, 17
Daems - Schoy, ° 29.11.1837; + 4.7.1875. Dealer in objets d’art and photographer. He arrived at this address on 10.1.1863 from Rue de la Madeleine, 33. There are CVs featuring the joint names of J.B. Daems at this address and Dechamps & Cie, Place Sainte-Gudule, 14, one dated 1864. In Tarlier 1865-1866, Veuve Daems-Schoy is listed under the headings "Antiques, curiosities, and objets d’art" and "Dealers and restorers of paintings". Daems - De Wrée published a photograph by J. Varenne, Rue de la Fourche, 36, reproducing a drawing of the Empress of Mexico Charlotte praying, accompanied by an angel and the Emperor Maximilian (+ 1867) in heaven. Jean-Baptiste Daems wrote "Niellophototypie. Découverte photographique applicable aux arts industriels". Brussels, Office de publicité, 1865, 21 pp. Daems supplied the prints for "Le Chimiste" in 1865, a monthly edited by Henri Bergé (see that name) and the first attempt at a popular scientific periodical to be photographically illustrated.

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1863 * - 1867 Bruxelles, Montagne de la Cour, 17

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DIRECTORY_1997#904

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SFJ revised 8.8.2020; MD revised 29.7.2021

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