Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...

, and who produced

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and then founded a

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business. Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831

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and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s. During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica. He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica. The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile. The companies original premises was destroyed by fire in 1907. From 1909 their studio was 85 King Street, Kingston.

Duperly and Haiti

Duperly moved to

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

in 1823 and became one of the teachers of the Lycée National of Haiti ( Lycée Toussaint Louverture in Haiti).

References and sources

;References ;Sources 1801 births 1865 deaths Jamaican photographers Engravers from Paris Artists from Kingston, Jamaica People from Port-au-Prince French emigrants 19th-century Jamaican people {{photographer-stub