Oorloft, Joseph Philippe

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Brussels, 1793 - Brussels, 1861

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1844 - 1851 Bruxelles, Rue des Paroissiens, 13
° 12.2.1793; + 3.2.1861. Daguerreotypist and artist. A pupil at the "Académie de Bruxelles", he was a successful miniaturist. His portraits were "conspicuous for their sharpness and generally accepted as displaying a perfect likeness" (H. Hymans in "Biographie Nationale", vol. 16, col. 211). He turned to photography in the mid-1840s, one of the few established artists to take this step. He seems to have abandoned photography in the first half of the 1850s and reverted to his original career: he exhibited a "frame containing three miniatures" at the "Exposition générale des beaux-arts" in Brussels in 1851 and a miniature "portrait of a young lady" at the following exhibition in Brussels in 1854.

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1844 - 1851 Bruxelles, Rue des Paroissiens, 13

Exhibitions

Brussels, 1847 (nine daguerreotype portraits).

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Bibliography/Webography

JOSEPH, Steven F. & SCHWILDEN, Tristan. A l'aube de la photographie en Belgique: Guillaume Claine (1811-1869) et son cercle. Bruxelles, 1991, p. 17.
VALCKE, Sibylle. "Oorloft Joseph-Philippe", Le Dictionnaire des peintres belges du XIVe siècle à nos jours, La Renaissance du Livre, vol. 2, 1994, p. 782.

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DIRECTORY_1997#3226

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SFJ revised 15.2.2018 & 9.3.2020; MCC revised 4.1.2019; SFJ revised 27.7.2021

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