Frederick DeBourg (De Berg) Richards - Artist Info

About Frederick DeBourg (De Berg) Richards

  • Biography

    The following is from Laurie A. Baty, Deputy Director, Collections, US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In the 1995 Daguerreian Annual, she also published an article titled: "Proud of the Result of My Labor': Frederick DeBourg Richards (1822-1903)."

    CHRONOLOGY:

    b. June 24, 1822, Wilmington, DE - d. January 26, 1903, Philadelphia, PA

    1836 to Westtown Friends
    1840 in New York as an art student
    After 1844 work regularly included in American Art-Union exhibitions
    July 1845, age 23, gave a painting of Lafayette to the City of Wilmington.
    1846 practicing the photographic art of daguerreotypy
    1848 in city directories as a daguerreotypist
    1850 photographic work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine-Arts, ...

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