Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.[1]
Biography edit
J.J. Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.[1][2]
In 1843 Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on Tremont Row, in Boston's Scollay Square. The studio produced daguerreotype portraits of many notables, including Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, and others.[3] The studio rooms overlooked "a fine orchard, belonging to the Gardiner Greene estate. From these windows, facing Scollay Sq., we looked on the church and gardens of Brattle Street"[4]
In 1849 Hawes married Nancy Niles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward.[5]
After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s.[6] In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."[7]
Image gallery edit
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Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether, 1847 -
Young girl with portrait of George Washington, c. 1850 -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., c. 1850-1856 -
Lajos Kossuth, 1851 -
Unidentified woman, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 -
Portrait of J.J. Hawes and his daughter Marion, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 -
View of Brattle St., 1855 -
Boston Common, c. 1875 -
Portrait of Robert Browning, c. 1860s-1880s -
View of Boston, c. 1860s-1880s -
Daniel Webster, c. 1883 -
Lemuel Shaw, c. 1883 -
Self-portrait, c. 1890 -
Self-portrait, c. 1890 -
Self-portrait, c. 1895
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References edit
- ^ a b George Eastman House. "Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes". International Center of Photography. Archived from the original on 2009-09-14.
- ^ Oldest Photographer Dead. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901, p.7.
- ^ Boston Almanac. 1847
- ^ Hawes, quoted in: Treasures in Pictures. Boston Daily Globe, Feb 21, 1898. p.9.
- ^ B. Newhall (1968). Daguerreotype in America. ISBN 9780486233222.
- ^ Boston Directory, 1868; Boston Almanac, 1883, 1894.
- ^ Boston Transcript, 1898.
Further reading edit
- Treasures in Pictures; Many Famous Photographs Made by the Veteran Josiah Johnson Hawes. Boston Daily Globe, Feb 21, 1898. p. 9.
- Josiah Johnson Hawes, dies in his ninety-fourth year. Boston Transcript, Aug.9, 1901.
- Oldest Photographer Dead; He Was Josiah Johnson Hawes, Friend of Dickens, Rufus Choate, and Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901. p. 7.
- Abel, Juan C.; Cummings, Thomas Harrison; French, Wilfred A.; Beardsley, A. H. (1901). "The past and present". Photo-Era Magazine.
- I.N. Phelps Stokes (1939). The Hawes-Stokes collection of American daguerreotypes by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Rachel Johnston Homer, ed. (1972). The legacy of Josiah Johnson Hawes; 19th century photographs of Boston. Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers.
- C. Moore (1975). Two partners in Boston: the careers and Daguerreian artistry of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes. University of Michigan.
External links edit
- WorldCat. Hawes, Josiah Johnson 1808-1901
- Boston Public Library on Flickr. Josiah Johnson Hawes Photographs
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[permanent dead link], works by J.J. Hawes
- Boston Athenaeum Archived 2010-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, works by J.J. Hawes.
- George Eastman House, on Flickr, works by Southworth & Hawes
- International Center of Photography, 2005 exhibition of Southworth & Hawes
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, works by J.J. Hawes