Half-length portrait of a seated man (Georg von Stackelberg?), facing slightly to his left. He has dark wavy hair, sideburns and moustache. He wears a dark jacket, dark trousers, white shirt with high collar and dark cravat. His both hands rest on his thighs.The image has a plain background
Half-length portrait of a seated man (Georg von Stackelberg?), facing slightly to his left. He has dark wavy hair, sideburns and moustache. He wears a dark jacket, dark trousers, white shirt with high collar and dark cravat. His both hands rest on his thighs.The image has a plain background
Subject name
Stackelberg, Georg von
Inscription
Written on the mat (bottom) „Daguerreotyp af Carl Neuperti Christiania“
Keyword technique
daguerreotype
links
Stereo plates
No
Window size
Height
69 mm / 2.72 inch
Width
58 mm / 2.28 inch
Housing size
Height
160 mm / 6.3 inch
Width
143 mm / 5.63 inch
Depth
65 mm / 2.56 inch
Window shape
Octagon
Housing shape
Rectangle
Collection
Identifier
National Archives of Estonia
Description
National Archives of Estonia (Rahvusarhiiv) – J. Liivi 4, 50409 Tartu, Estonia. Phone +372 7387500, E-mail rahvusarhiiv@ra.ee. The National Archives is the centre of archival administration in Estonia. The collections include more than half a million of prints and negatives from 19th century until present, incl. one daguerreotype, several tintypes etc.
Creator
Name
Neupert, Carl
notes
Active in Norway: Christiania (Oslo), 1844-46, Bergen, Trondheim and Kristiansand 1844. In Russia: St. Petersburg 1847 and Finland 1848-49 including Helsingfors. Photographed also in Lithuania in the 1850s. He lived in Vilnius in 1851 and 1855 (according to Jurate Gudaite from The National Museum of Lithuania) where he called himself Charles Neupert, and had his name printed on the verso of the white, octagonal passepartout.
He was an artifical flower manufacturer and sold womens clothing, mainly hats and capes before he took up daguerreotyping. Student of Carl Ferdinand Stelzner. Dates of birth and death are not confimed, copied from a Polish source: http://www.natkaszczerbatka.pl/fotografia/3853-zabytkowe-fotografie-w-muzeum-narodowym-w-warszawie.html
http://www.lnm.lt/en/virtual-exhibitions/collection-of-daguerreotypes-of-the-national-museum-of-lithuania
Dainius Junevicius, Fotografia na Litwie 1839- 1863 http://issuu.com/dainiusjunevicius/docs/junevicius-dagerotyp
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