Antoine-Jean-Francois Claudet

Claudet was born in 1797, in Lyon, France. He then settled in London in 1827. After being a successful glass merchant, he learned the daguerreotype process from Daguerre himself. Claudet then purchased the first Daguerreotype license in Egland and estabished his own photographic studio on the roof of the Adelaide Gallery, behind St. Martin's church, London, from 1841 to 1851, later moved to 107 Regent Street. He broght several new technical improvements to the Daguerreotype process, including new sensiizing materials, exposure times and focal improvements, and is credit with the discovery that it was possible to develop prints under a red light, as well as the use of painted backdrops. Claudet passed away on December 27, 1867.

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