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Turner, Benjamin Brecknell
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Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Amateur
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Life dates
London [GB], 1815 - London [GB], 1894
Activity
1857 [Belgium (views of)]
° 12.5.1815; + 29.5.1894. Calotypist from 1849 onwards. Excursions into the English countryside producing series of his characteristic rural views. Visit to the Low Countries in May 1857. A view of Bruges, featuring the Begijnhof in the foreground, is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Turner abandoned photography in 1862 to devote himself exclusively to the family firm manufacturing candles and soap.
° 12.5.1815; + 29.5.1894. Calotypist from 1849 onwards. Excursions into the English countryside producing series of his characteristic rural views. Visit to the Low Countries in May 1857. A view of Bruges, featuring the Begijnhof in the foreground, is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Turner abandoned photography in 1862 to devote himself exclusively to the family firm manufacturing candles and soap.
Locations
1857 [Belgium (views of)]
Exhibitions
London, 1859 (views of Belgium from paper negatives).
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Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4187
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 11.7.2018