DIRECTORY_1997#4822 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 10:53:21 AM CET human revised January 22, 2021 11:29:36 AM CET human Person (Male) person Wright, William conventionDeclaration Connected conventionDeclaration 1841 - 1843 Bruxelles - Saint-Josse, Rue des Arts, 139 (on Urling’s premises)

<b>1841 - 1843 Bruxelles - Saint-Josse, Rue des Arts, 139 (on Urling’s premises)</b> A native of Manchester [GB]. Import patent of 20.3.1841 for "a new apparatus for transferring drawings and other objects of nature or art to metal surfaces prepared by a new process" [daguerreotype camera invented by John Johnson]. Supplementary patent relating to improvements of 4.8.1841 [set-up of the glass studio]. This covers the system worked by Richard Beard (see that name), who opened one of the first two studios in Belgium, in the Bazar Pantechnique in Brussels, in March 1842, operated by Billing. Import patent of 30.10.1843 for "improvements in photography" [daguerreotype camera]. William Wright of Salford [Lancashire, GB], described as a "machine maker", had previously patented improvements to cotton-twisting machinery on 22.6.1836.