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Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Bruges, 1797 - Paris [F], 1877
Activity
1845 - 1852 Bruges, Domaine de Bloemendael
Louis Constantin, ° 25.3.1797; + 5.11.1877. Painter and graphic artist. From 1839 he was an arboriculturist and ran a rural estate near Bruges. Collaboration with Guillaume Claine (see that name) with whom he took, most notably, views of Brussels and Laeken in 1849. From 1848 onwards he made combination prints, introducing clouds, objects, and human figures into his landscapes. Views for the photographic missions commissioned from Claine. Jacopssen displayed, jointly with Claine, eight prints at the "Exposition générale des beaux-arts" in Brussels in 1851, the only photographs to feature in that exhibition; they were described as "heliographic drawings". No further trace of activity after 1852. Jacopssen moved to Brussels in 1867, then left for Paris.
Louis Constantin, ° 25.3.1797; + 5.11.1877. Painter and graphic artist. From 1839 he was an arboriculturist and ran a rural estate near Bruges. Collaboration with Guillaume Claine (see that name) with whom he took, most notably, views of Brussels and Laeken in 1849. From 1848 onwards he made combination prints, introducing clouds, objects, and human figures into his landscapes. Views for the photographic missions commissioned from Claine. Jacopssen displayed, jointly with Claine, eight prints at the "Exposition générale des beaux-arts" in Brussels in 1851, the only photographs to feature in that exhibition; they were described as "heliographic drawings". No further trace of activity after 1852. Jacopssen moved to Brussels in 1867, then left for Paris.
Locations
1845 - 1852 Bruges, Domaine de Bloemendael
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1851 (in partnership with Guillaume Claine).
Bibliography/Webography
JOSEPH, S.F. & SCHWILDEN, T. A l'aube de la photographie en Belgique: Guillaume Claine (1811-1869) et son cercle. Brussels, 1991, 120 pp.
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2314
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 27.1.2017, 8.6.2020 & 27.7.2021