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[Portrait of a Seated Man]
Creator
Robert H. VanceAmerican Daguerreotypist · 1825–1876
All works by this person →Born in Maine and having learned the daguerreotype process in Boston, Robert Vance traveled to South America, where he opened several daguerreian galleries in Chile. After selling those establishments, Vance moved to California in late 1850. There he made more than three hundred daguerreotypes during the California gold rush; capitalizing on public interest, he exhibited them to enthusiastic revie
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- 1852–1855
- Medium
- Hand-colored daguerreotype
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 64c567b6-181f-4079-80fd-8d15e3e4a816
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Housed in a single case with a daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man.
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