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Watrigant, Alphonse
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Lille [F], 1829 - Brussels, 1899
Activity
1869 - 1899 + Bruxelles
° 18.3.1829; + 15.1.1899. Registered as a boot maker in 1866 and as a shoe salesman in 1880. One of his photographs, "Entrance of the Royal Library in 1869", was used as frontispiece in the publication "Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Centenaire de l'ouverture au public 21 mai 1839", Brussels, 1939. Founder member of the ABP ("Watrigand"). He built a stereoscopic camera with magazine in 1889.
° 18.3.1829; + 15.1.1899. Registered as a boot maker in 1866 and as a shoe salesman in 1880. One of his photographs, "Entrance of the Royal Library in 1869", was used as frontispiece in the publication "Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Centenaire de l'ouverture au public 21 mai 1839", Brussels, 1939. Founder member of the ABP ("Watrigand"). He built a stereoscopic camera with magazine in 1889.
Locations
1869 - 1899 + Bruxelles
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1899
Description of relationship
ABP file card inexplicably gives 1883 as the end date of membership.
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4723
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 31.5.2018; SFJ revised 9.5.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght