Evely, Léon

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Status

  • Connected

Details

Life dates

Saint-Trond, 1849 - Brussels - Uccle, 1937

Activity

1880 - 1881 / Bruxelles, Rue Cantersteen, 16
° 28.4.1849; + 30.4.1937. A gravure printer who invented a photo-engraving process around 1880 for which he never applied for a patent. The process was particularly suitable for work in line. Evely was thus one of the main printers of Félicien Rops' engravings, collaborating intensively in the 1880s, notably on the series "Les Sataniques". Rops remunerated Evely in the form of sketches, drawings and etchings. A set of nearly fifty letters from Rops to Evely is held in the "Cabinet des Estampes" of the "Bibliothèque royale de Belgique" and has been published online at www.ropslettres.be
Stayed at this address until 5.10.1881.
1881 * - 1893 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 13
Evely was domiciled at this address from 5.10.1881 until 6.12.1893 and registered as a civil servant. Partnership with François Deron Fils from 1883 until 1887. He produced a series of prints by his process after Odilon Redon, inspired by Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal", 1890.
1893 * - 1906 > Bruxelles, Rue des Comédiens, 65<94-00> then 55
Domiciled at no. 65 from 6.12.1893 until 5.9.1900, then at no. 55, where he was initially registered as a civil servant, then as an employee of the "Banque Nationale", in which capacity he was active in printing banknotes. Not a member of ABP from 1888 until 1893. In the ABP membership lists, he was recorded at Rue des Comédiens, 65 until 1906 and from 1907 to 1913 he was described as the technical director of telegraphy, Post and Telegraph Office, Place de la Monnaie. Knight of the Order of Leopold.

Locations

1880 - 1881 / Bruxelles, Rue Cantersteen, 16
1881 * - 1893 / Bruxelles, Rue de la Madeleine, 13
1893 * - 1906 > Bruxelles, Rue des Comédiens, 65<94-00> then 55

Exhibitions

Ghent, 1880 (heliographic engravings; third price).

Genres / subject matter

Techniques

Bibliography/Webography

KUNEL, Maurice. "Lettres de Félicien Rops à Léon Evely", Le Livre et l'Estampe, n° 24 (1960), pp. 298-316.

Context

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Affiliated entity

Association belge de Photographie

Type of affiliation

Member of

Dates of affiliation

1881 - 1913

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Management

Record source

DIRECTORY_1997#1602

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Dates of creation/revision

SFJ revised 20.4.2017, 24.5.2017, 6.6.2017 & 1.1.2019; MD revised 4.3.2024

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