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De Meuter, Edouard
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Brussels, 1845 - Brussels, 1907
Activity
1891 - 1912 Bruxelles, Rue de la Régence, 53<96;02-07> or 50<99>
Successor: Piette Veuve G. (cabinet-making) #
Edouard Emile, ° 9.6.1845; + 6.6.1907. Cabinet-making and precision mechanics. "Firm founded in 1864." Recorded as a cabinet-maker in 1870 and a manufacturer of bronzes in 1880. General photographic supplies, plates, films, and chemicals. Work for amateurs, developing, retouching, printing, enlargements, mounting, etc. Photograph dealer. Hire of apparatus for slide shows; darkroom and portrait studio available for use by customers. Patent of 30.9.1891 for "a new type of frame for developing topographic negatives"; patent of 30.11.1891 for "a new printing frame for making photographic prints"; patent of 30.7.1892 for "a new system of lamps for photographic darkrooms". Factory in Brussels - Molenbeek. Following De Meuter's death in 1907, his firm ceased trading as cabinet-makers and thereafter restricted professional activity to dealing in photographs, still under its founder's name.
Successor: Piette Veuve G. (cabinet-making) #
Edouard Emile, ° 9.6.1845; + 6.6.1907. Cabinet-making and precision mechanics. "Firm founded in 1864." Recorded as a cabinet-maker in 1870 and a manufacturer of bronzes in 1880. General photographic supplies, plates, films, and chemicals. Work for amateurs, developing, retouching, printing, enlargements, mounting, etc. Photograph dealer. Hire of apparatus for slide shows; darkroom and portrait studio available for use by customers. Patent of 30.9.1891 for "a new type of frame for developing topographic negatives"; patent of 30.11.1891 for "a new printing frame for making photographic prints"; patent of 30.7.1892 for "a new system of lamps for photographic darkrooms". Factory in Brussels - Molenbeek. Following De Meuter's death in 1907, his firm ceased trading as cabinet-makers and thereafter restricted professional activity to dealing in photographs, still under its founder's name.
Locations
1891 - 1912 Bruxelles, Rue de la Régence, 53<96;02-07> or 50<99>
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1896.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1895 - 1900
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1285
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 24.1.2017, 15.11.2017 & 29.11.2018 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght