Verryck - Fleetwood, Antoni (& Cie)

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

Alternative name or descriptor

  • Photographie de Tirlemont or Photographie Anglaise (in Tirlemont); Engelsche Photographie (in Saint-Trond); Maison Anglaise (in Antwerp).

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Status

  • Professional

Details

Life dates

Turnhout, 1829 - ?, ?

Activity

1863 ca - 1871 / Tirlemont, Rue des Bouchers
Jean Antoine / Jan Anton (Antoni) Verryck, ° 3.1.1829. Husband of Elisabeth Fleetwood (° [Lancashire, GB], 11.10.1837). Also "Photographie Anglaise", 1865 ca - 1870 ca (no street mentioned). Itinerant in Geel on 29.4.1866 in the hotel "De Schild van Turnhout", where he would be staying no longer than 4 days. Advertising from Tirlemont, Verryck - Fleetwood publicly disowned photographs being taken in his name in Turnhout on the premises of Fransus Kelders - Van den Broeck (De Kempenaar, 19.3.1870).
1864 * - 1867 / Turnhout, Otterstraat, 924<66-67>
Announced the opening of a studio on the premises of widow Mertens in March 1864. Also a hairdresser at this address in 1864.
1867 * - 1868 / Turnhout, Warandestraat
Successor: Verryck - Hylaerts Jean Baptiste
Move to this address, coming from Otterstraat, announced in April 1867. Left for Tirlemont on 20.5.1868.
1869 Saint-Trond, Naemschestraat / Klokkemstraat (on Gustave Naten’s premises)
"Engelsche Photographie". Advertising for this address in June and July 1869 in the "Annoncenblad der provincie Limburg". Operating on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. "Large portrait with 12 cartes, 20 frs; one dozen cartes with white background, 12 frs."
1870 Saint-Trond, Tienschestraet (on widow Staar’s premises)
"Engelsche Photographie". Operating on Wednesdays and Sundays from 15.5.1870 until 15.8.1870.
1871 * - 1882 / Anvers, Place de Meir, 89<71-74> then 81<74-82>
Predecessor: Calphas Athanasios # Successor: Kockenpoo Edouard Joseph
"& Cie" at this address. Moved here on 22.9.1871, coming from Thienen. Patent of 15.7.1875 for "a new photographic process on canvas in oils. Member of the ABP from 14.3.1876. Officially moved from no. 89 to no. 81 in August 1877, but already started advertising at no. 81 in September 1874. "Mr Verryck-Fleetwood is taking portraits of all members of the kingdom's permanent deputations [= local politicians] for exhibition in 1880. It only remains for him to photograph the deputies of Hasselt, Ghent and Brussels" (La Meuse, 1.8.1879). In fact in 1880 he exhibited a frame containing the portrait of King Leopold II surrounded by portraits of the governors of the nine Belgian provinces. In a circular letter addressed to mayors, he offered copies for sale, format 80 x 60 cm, for 16 francs, frame and postage included. No further photographic activity has been traced. Verryck - Fleetwood moved to Tolstraat, 79 on 22.12.1882 and eventually left Antwerp for Brussels - Schaerbeek on 20.6.1888.

Locations

1863 ca - 1871 / Tirlemont, Rue des Bouchers
1864 * - 1867 / Turnhout, Otterstraat, 924<66-67>
1867 * - 1868 / Turnhout, Warandestraat
1869 Saint-Trond, Naemschestraat / Klokkemstraat (on Gustave Naten’s premises)
1870 Saint-Trond, Tienschestraet (on widow Staar’s premises)
1871 * - 1882 / Anvers, Place de Meir, 89<71-74> then 81<74-82>

Exhibitions

Paris, 1878; Brussels, 1880.

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Affiliations

Affiliated entity

Association belge de Photographie

Type of affiliation

Member of

Dates of affiliation

1876 - 1877

Description of relationship

Management

Record source

DIRECTORY_1997#4631

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Dates of creation/revision

SFJ revised 9.1.2018, 19.5.2018, 18.7.2018 & 13.1.2019; SFJ revised 8.4.2020 & 22.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 9.8.2020, 3.11.2020, 29.5.2021 & 26.10.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 17.4.2020, 22.4.2020, 3.6.2020 & 29.6.2021

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