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Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in
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. He and
Albert Southworth Albert Southworth, circa 1848 Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) operated Southworth & Hawes daguerreotype studio with Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) from 1843 to 1863. Biography Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in ...
established the photography studio of
Southworth & Hawes Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose wor ...
, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.


Biography

J.J. Hawes was born in
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in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud. In 1843 Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on
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, in Boston's
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. The studio produced
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portraits of many notables, including
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, and others. The studio rooms overlooked "a fine orchard, belonging to the
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estate. From these windows, facing Scollay Sq., we looked on the
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and gardens of Brattle Street" In 1849 Hawes married Nancy Niles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward. After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s. In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."Boston Transcript, 1898.


Image gallery

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, 1851 Image:UnidentifiedWoman ca1852 Southworth Hawes 18522677480343.jpg, Unidentified woman, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 Image:Marion and JJHawes ca1852.png, Portrait of J.J. Hawes and his daughter Marion, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852 Image:1855 BrattleSt AbbottLawrenceFuneral Boston Southworth Hawes MFABoston.png, View of Brattle St., 1855 Image:1870s Snow BostonCommon JJHawes MFABoston.jpg,
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, c. 1875 Image:RobertBrowning JJHawes.png, Portrait of
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References


Further reading

* 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. * * * *


External links

* WorldCat
Hawes, Josiah Johnson 1808-1901

Boston Public Library
on Flickr. Josiah Johnson Hawes Photographs
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
works by J.J. Hawes
Boston Athenaeum
, works by J.J. Hawes.
George Eastman House, on Flickr
works by Southworth & Hawes

2005 exhibition of Southworth & Hawes

works by J.J. Hawes {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawes, Josiah Pioneers of photography 1808 births 1901 deaths Photographers from Boston Phillips Academy alumni 19th century in Boston 19th-century American photographers