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ID: 500035005
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500035005

 

Record Type: Person
White, John Forbes (Scottish photographer, art historian, and collector, 1831-1904)

Note: Ca. 1852, White took up photography using the waxed-paper process. With his brother-in-law Thomas Keith, he photographed architectural sites around Edinburgh until ca. 1856. In 1856, White was a founding member of the Photographic Society of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Names:
White, John Forbes (preferred,V,index,LC)
John Forbes White (V,display)
Forbes White, John (U,Dutch-P,NA)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
art historian
collector
art critic
art collector
physician
entrepreneur

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   ca. 1852-ca. 1856  Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
active:   ca. 1852-ca. 1856  Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
sibling by marriage (in-law) of ....  Keith, Thomas  
......................................................  (Scottish photographer and surgeon, 1827-1895) [500006259]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  White, John Forbes (I)

Biographies:
(Scottish photographer, art historian, and collector, 1831-1904) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Scottish photographer, art historian and collector; born Aberdeen (Grampian, Scotland, United Kingdom), 1831; died 1904) ..... [CCA]
(artist, 1831-1904) ..... [GRL]
(Scottish art critic, 1831-1904) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Forbes White, John ........ [RKD Preferred]
.....................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 437751
John Forbes White ........ [CCA]
...................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
White, John Forbes ........ [CCA Preferred, GRL Preferred]
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 94026440
.....................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Subject: ........ [CCA, Gallery Systems, GRL, RKD, VP]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Dr. Thomas Keith, a Scottish photography group exhibition (1977)
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n94026440
....................  Kraus, Sun Pictures: Catalogue Six (1993) 11
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n94026440
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 437751
....................  Stevenson and Morrison-Low, Scottish Photography (1990) 31
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q18911600
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Kraus, Sun Pictures: Catalogue Six (1993)
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