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Descamps, Palmer
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Courtrai, 1840 - Courtrai, 1884
Activity
1864 - 1884 + Courtrai, Rue de la Lys, 7<66> or 13<66-74>
Successor: Vandeleene Edward
Palmer Augustin, ° 7.6.1840; + 7.8.1884. Photographer and goldsmith <65-66 no street>. Last in a line of goldsmiths. This was his family house. May have been a photographer from the early 1860s. Member of the ABP from 10.11.1874. Manufactured gelatine bromide plates in the 1880s. From 1885 on, the firm he founded, and which was probably already being managed by his brother-in-law Edward Vandeleene, produced half of Van Monckhoven’s gelatine bromide plates (De Lanier was responsible for the other half).
1881 * - 1884 + Courtrai, Kloosterstraat, 4 (private?)
At this address from 20.10.1881.
Successor: Vandeleene Edward
Palmer Augustin, ° 7.6.1840; + 7.8.1884. Photographer and goldsmith <65-66 no street>. Last in a line of goldsmiths. This was his family house. May have been a photographer from the early 1860s. Member of the ABP from 10.11.1874. Manufactured gelatine bromide plates in the 1880s. From 1885 on, the firm he founded, and which was probably already being managed by his brother-in-law Edward Vandeleene, produced half of Van Monckhoven’s gelatine bromide plates (De Lanier was responsible for the other half).
1881 * - 1884 + Courtrai, Kloosterstraat, 4 (private?)
At this address from 20.10.1881.
Locations
1864 - 1884 + Courtrai, Rue de la Lys, 7<66> or 13<66-74>
1881 * - 1884 + Courtrai, Kloosterstraat, 4 (private?)
1881 * - 1884 + Courtrai, Kloosterstraat, 4 (private?)
Exhibitions
Courtrai, 1865; Brussels, 1874; Ghent, 1880.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1895
Description of relationship
It is unknown why Descamps' name continued to appear in the membership lists for an extended period after his death.
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#1393
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 30.11.2017, 7.6.2018 & 9.11.2018; SFJ revised 24.3.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 29.11.2021