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Jules Breton  (1827–1906)  wikidata:Q282043 s:fr:Auteur:Jules Breton
 
Jules Breton
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Jules Aldolphe Aimé Louis Breton
Description French painter, writer and poet
realism
era QS:P2348,Q10857409
Date of birth/death 1 May 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 5 July 1906 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Courrières Paris
Work period 1841 Edit this at Wikidata–1906 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q282043

Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie (1843–1917)

Smithsonian Institution
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English: Jules Breton. The Song of the Lark (painting)

Description: Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years from 1870 until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Repository: http://siarchives.si.edu/

Accession number: RU95_Box76_085
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1884 (painting)
1913 (photography of painting)

2005-06-16 10:10:06 (digitalization of photography)
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  • Famous curator of photography
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