Dandoy Frères

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Partnership

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  • Professional

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1856 * - 1857 Namur, Rue de Gravière, 14 or 1061
Partnership between Armand and Héliodore Dandoy, opening on 1.7.1856. A restored quarter-plate daguerreotype, c. 1856, signed in the plate by incision "A. Dandoy", was offered for sale at auction in Antwerp in 2018; no corroborating documentation has yet been located. During the 1857 Brussels photography exhibition, Dandoy Frères installed a mobile studio in the courtyard of the "Musée de Bruxelles", the exhibition venue. "Picture a closed, four-wheeled carriage, horse-drawn with its doors in coloured glass. The interior is three metres long, two metres wide and a little more in height; it is ingeniously designed for all photographic operations" (Revue photographique, 5.12.1857).
1858 ca - 1862 / Namur, Rue de Fer, 82<60-62>
Predecessor: Dandoy Armand
Stereoscopic views in a series "Bords de la Meuse", 1858 ca - 1860 ca. The two brothers’ partnership turned out to be short-lived at this address and Armand continued the studio on his own.
1861 * - 1866 / Spa, Place Royale, 454
Héliodore alone at this address, even though still trading as "Dandoy Frères". He arrived in May 1861, returning to Namur in April 1866, and left for Antwerp two months later. Félicien Rops (see that name) made a poster in lithography for the studio in Spa.
1862 */ Liège, Place Saint-Lambert, 30
Successor: Grandmaison Hubert (& Cie)
Opening announced for 12.4.1862, but only advertising here for one or two months after which Hubert Grandmaison started advertising at this address.

Locations

1856 * - 1857 Namur, Rue de Gravière, 14 or 1061
1858 ca - 1862 / Namur, Rue de Fer, 82<60-62>
1861 * - 1866 / Spa, Place Royale, 454
1862 */ Liège, Place Saint-Lambert, 30

Exhibitions

Armand exhibited alone: Brussels, 1856 (instantaneous studies of horses); Brussels, 1857; Paris, 1857.

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DIRECTORY_1997#919

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SFJ revised 21.10.2018 & 10.3.2024; MD revised 2.9.2020; SFJ revised 2.6.2024 based on information supplied by Jean-Pol Weber

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