Richard Beard

Daguerreotypist · 1801–1885

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In 1841, less than two years after the introduction of the daguerreotype process in France, Richard Beard, a coal merchant and entrepreneur, had built and was operating England's first rooftop daguerreian portrait studio. John Goddard, a science lecturer at London's Polytechnic Institution, located downstairs from the studio on Regent Street in London, served as daguerreotypist, the person who act