Printed: 2024-04-25
De Clercq, Julien
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
- Comptoir de Photographie [Ghent & Bruges]
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected / Professional
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1873 - Ghent, 1943
Activity
1895 - 1920 > Gand, Rue de Flandre, 9
Predecessor: Wauters Polydore or Wauters [P.] & Masquelier [A.] Successor: Photo Hall Gantois # Buysse Edgard #
Julianus Marcellinus, ° 17.11.1873; + 11.4.1943. Sometimes transcribed "Declercq". Owner of a photographic supply house and agency for optical equipment and cameras. Manufacture and repair shop. Listed in the Ghent directories from 1904 onwards; previously Polydore Wauters is listed as owner at this address. Also see entry for "Comptoir (Général) de Photographie". Author of "La Photographie au Congo et sous les tropiques", 1910, offering synergy with his firm that made a speciality of cameras and supplies for the tropics. Also published picture-postcards bearing the initials J.D.C. (sometimes interlocked). Declercq signed photographs in 1909 documenting an old mansion about to be demolished, a possible commission. Autochromist from at least November 1908. He exhibited autochromes at the annual slide show of the Ghent section of the ABP in March 1912. Still listed at this address in 1921 and still a member of the ABP in 1922.
1906 * - 1912 / Bruges, Rue Sud du Sablon, 23<06-08> or 24 or 25 then 13<08-10>
Successor: Vercauteren François
According to Guillaume Michiels this branch opened at no. 24 on 24.1.1906. Advertising at no. 25 in March 1906 (Vers l'Art, 1.3.1906). Advertising at no. 24 in November 1907 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 30.11.1907). Opening at no. 13 advertised in November 1908 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 21.11.1908). Managed by François Vercauteren (see that name).
Predecessor: Wauters Polydore or Wauters [P.] & Masquelier [A.] Successor: Photo Hall Gantois # Buysse Edgard #
Julianus Marcellinus, ° 17.11.1873; + 11.4.1943. Sometimes transcribed "Declercq". Owner of a photographic supply house and agency for optical equipment and cameras. Manufacture and repair shop. Listed in the Ghent directories from 1904 onwards; previously Polydore Wauters is listed as owner at this address. Also see entry for "Comptoir (Général) de Photographie". Author of "La Photographie au Congo et sous les tropiques", 1910, offering synergy with his firm that made a speciality of cameras and supplies for the tropics. Also published picture-postcards bearing the initials J.D.C. (sometimes interlocked). Declercq signed photographs in 1909 documenting an old mansion about to be demolished, a possible commission. Autochromist from at least November 1908. He exhibited autochromes at the annual slide show of the Ghent section of the ABP in March 1912. Still listed at this address in 1921 and still a member of the ABP in 1922.
1906 * - 1912 / Bruges, Rue Sud du Sablon, 23<06-08> or 24 or 25 then 13<08-10>
Successor: Vercauteren François
According to Guillaume Michiels this branch opened at no. 24 on 24.1.1906. Advertising at no. 25 in March 1906 (Vers l'Art, 1.3.1906). Advertising at no. 24 in November 1907 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 30.11.1907). Opening at no. 13 advertised in November 1908 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 21.11.1908). Managed by François Vercauteren (see that name).
Locations
1895 - 1920 > Gand, Rue de Flandre, 9
1906 * - 1912 / Bruges, Rue Sud du Sablon, 23<06-08> or 24 or 25 then 13<08-10>
1906 * - 1912 / Bruges, Rue Sud du Sablon, 23<06-08> or 24 or 25 then 13<08-10>
Exhibitions
Ghent ABP, 1903.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1902 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1057
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 24.8.2017, 20.9.2017 & 28.11.2018; SFJ revised 26.3.2020, 7.9.2020, 23.4.2021, 28.5.2021 & 13.12.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 3.5.2021, 7.12.2021, 20.7.2022, 25.7.2022, 31.1.2023, 1.2.2023, 10.5.2023 & 11.3.2024