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Denis, Pierre
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Tongeren, 1799 - Tongeren, 1880
Activity
1849 - 1880 + Tongres
Pierre Jacques, ° 15.9.1799; + 19.5.1880. Senior municipal tax official or treasurer ("receveur de l'enregistrement et des domaines") in Tongeren when a photograph of the tower of the Church of Our Lady credited to him was reproduced as a lithograph in "Tongres et ses monuments" by A.F.C.T. Perreau, Tongres, 1849 (2nd edition). Founder member of the "Société Scientifique et Littéraire du Limbourg"; another lithograph from a photograph by Denis featuring a reliquary of the holy cross in the church treasury appeared in the "Bulletin de la Société Scientifique et Littéraire du Limbourg", vol. 1, 1852-1854. Denis was therefore a pioneering amateur photographer in Limbourg. Moved to Antwerp on 19.10.1857 on his appointment to a position of court recorder ("receveur de l'enregistement des actes judiciaires") and returned to Tongeren on 1.4.1868. By 1867 Denis had retired but was still described as an administrator of "Hospices Civils". Member of the ABP from 9.3.1875. "Landowner" in ABP membership lists, unmarried and a person of independent means on his death certificate.
A certain Denis (no forename) was listed as a professional photographer in Tongeren in C. Fabre, "Aide-mémoire de photographie", 1879, p. 198 and as late as 1896, p. 211, but we have not yet been able to corroborate this entry.
Pierre Jacques, ° 15.9.1799; + 19.5.1880. Senior municipal tax official or treasurer ("receveur de l'enregistrement et des domaines") in Tongeren when a photograph of the tower of the Church of Our Lady credited to him was reproduced as a lithograph in "Tongres et ses monuments" by A.F.C.T. Perreau, Tongres, 1849 (2nd edition). Founder member of the "Société Scientifique et Littéraire du Limbourg"; another lithograph from a photograph by Denis featuring a reliquary of the holy cross in the church treasury appeared in the "Bulletin de la Société Scientifique et Littéraire du Limbourg", vol. 1, 1852-1854. Denis was therefore a pioneering amateur photographer in Limbourg. Moved to Antwerp on 19.10.1857 on his appointment to a position of court recorder ("receveur de l'enregistement des actes judiciaires") and returned to Tongeren on 1.4.1868. By 1867 Denis had retired but was still described as an administrator of "Hospices Civils". Member of the ABP from 9.3.1875. "Landowner" in ABP membership lists, unmarried and a person of independent means on his death certificate.
A certain Denis (no forename) was listed as a professional photographer in Tongeren in C. Fabre, "Aide-mémoire de photographie", 1879, p. 198 and as late as 1896, p. 211, but we have not yet been able to corroborate this entry.
Locations
1849 - 1880 + Tongres
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1875 - 1880
Description of relationship
Still listed in the ABP membership list in 1881.
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1315
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 15.12.2019 & 27.3.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 2.6.2023; SFJ revised 16.6.2023, partly based on information supplied by M. Demaeght