Duperly (1833) Destruction of the Roehampton Estate January 1832

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

daguerreotypes Daguerreotype (; french: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre an ...

and then founded a

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

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

Baptist War The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of th ...

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 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 People from Kingston, Jamaica People from Port-au-Prince French emigrants to Jamaica {{photographer-stub