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Platteel, Gommaire
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Antwerp, 1822 - ?, ?
Activity
1856 - 1858 Namur, Rue des Fossés, 949<56> then 52<58>
Gommaire Jean, ° 2.2.1822. Sometimes spelled Plateel or Plattel. Daguerreotypist and house painter. At this address as early as 1854, but no mention of photography before 1856. At his sister's wedding in Brussels on 10.2.1858, recorded as a painter aged 36 living in Namur.
1860 Namur, Rue Saint-Jacques, 17
Dealer in paints. He made two photographs of the catafalque of Count Joseph Gabriel Ghislain d'Espiennes (° Assevent 1778; + Scy (Namur), 6.7.1860), one in the castle chapel, another in the church at Scy. On the verso is affixed a label: "Photography and daguerreotype by Gommaire Platteel, native of Antwerp".
1866 - 1880 Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 82
House painter. According to the directory, he was a photographer here only from 1873 to 1880.
Gommaire Jean, ° 2.2.1822. Sometimes spelled Plateel or Plattel. Daguerreotypist and house painter. At this address as early as 1854, but no mention of photography before 1856. At his sister's wedding in Brussels on 10.2.1858, recorded as a painter aged 36 living in Namur.
1860 Namur, Rue Saint-Jacques, 17
Dealer in paints. He made two photographs of the catafalque of Count Joseph Gabriel Ghislain d'Espiennes (° Assevent 1778; + Scy (Namur), 6.7.1860), one in the castle chapel, another in the church at Scy. On the verso is affixed a label: "Photography and daguerreotype by Gommaire Platteel, native of Antwerp".
1866 - 1880 Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 82
House painter. According to the directory, he was a photographer here only from 1873 to 1880.
Locations
1856 - 1858 Namur, Rue des Fossés, 949<56> then 52<58>
1860 Namur, Rue Saint-Jacques, 17
1866 - 1880 Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 82
1860 Namur, Rue Saint-Jacques, 17
1866 - 1880 Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 82
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#3453
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Dates of creation/revision
MCC revised 5.5.2018; SFJ revised 24.2.2019, based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 16.4.2020