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ID: 500003843
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Record Type: Person
Archer, Frederick Scott (English photographer and sculptor, 1813-1856)

Note: Archer learned the calotype process from Dr. Hugh W. Diamond (1809-1886) in 1847 and then set up a portrait studio in London, England. He was a founding member of the Photographic Club of London, also known as the Calotype Club, in 1847. In 1851 Archer invented the wet collodion on glass process and offered it free of patent to the public. It became the most widely used photographic process until 1870. In 1854 Archer took a series of pictures of Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England. He also photographed the counties of Kent, Cambridgeshire and Staffordshire in 1856 and 1857.

Names:
Archer, Frederick Scott (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Frederick Scott Archer (V,display)
Archer, Scott (V)
Scott Archer, Frederick (U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
photographer
inventor

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Bishop's Stortford (Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1847-1857  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Diamond, Hugh Welch  in 1847
..................  (English photographer, physician, and antiquary, 1809-1886) [500018982]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Archer, Frederick Scott (I)

Biographies:
(English photographer and sculptor, 1813-1856) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British photographer and sculptor, 1813-1857) ..... [BHA]
(English photographer and sculptor; born Bishop's Stortford (Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom), 1813; died London (England, United Kingdom), 1857) ..... [CCA]
(British, 1813-1857) ..... [JPGM]
(British photographer, 1813-1857) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Archer, Frederick Scott ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, JPGM Preferred, RKD Preferred]
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 380582
Archer, Scott ........ [VP]
............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Frederick Scott Archer ........ [CCA, VP]
.............................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Scott Archer, Frederick ........ [RKD]
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 380582

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, JPGM, RKD, VP]
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  DNB: Oxford National Biography, 1912-1921 (1927)
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr88000524
....................  Haworth-Booth, Golden Age of British Photography (1984) 48
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr88000524
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Matthews, Early Photographs (1973)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 380582
....................  Rosenblum, World History of Photography (1984) 119, 188
....................  Seiberling, Amateurs, Photography and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (1986) 119
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q983422
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Haworth-Booth, Golden Age of British Photography (1984)
.......... Rosenblum, World History of Photography (1984) 188
.......... Seiberling, Amateurs, Photography and the Mid-Victorian Imagination (1986)
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