Josiah Johnson Hawes

Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.

Biography

J.J. Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.

In 1843 Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on Tremont Row, in Boston's Scollay Square. The studio produced daguerreotype portraits of many notables, including Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, and others. The studio rooms overlooked "a fine orchard, belonging to the Gardiner Greene estate. From these windows, facing Scollay Sq., we looked on the church and gardens of Brattle Street"

In 1849 Hawes married Nancy Stiles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward.

After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s. In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."Boston Transcript, 1898.

Image gallery

File:Demonstration surgical use of ether 1847 daguerreotype.jpeg, ''Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether'', 1847
Image:Young girl with portrait of George Washington (05).jpg, Young girl with portrait of George Washington, c. 1850
Image:OWHolmesSr JJHawes.png, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., c. 1850-1856
Image:Lajos Kossuth.png, Lajos Kossuth, 1851
Image:UnidentifiedWoman ca1852 Southworth Hawes 18522677480343.jpg, Unidentified woman, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852
Image:Marion and JJHawes ca1852.png, Portrait of J.J. Hawes and his daughter Marion, by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1852
Image:1855 BrattleSt AbbottLawrenceFuneral Boston Southworth Hawes MFABoston.png, View of Brattle St., 1855
Image:1870s Snow BostonCommon JJHawes MFABoston.jpg, Boston Common, c. 1875
Image:RobertBrowning JJHawes.png, Portrait of Robert Browning, c. 1860s-1880s
Image:General view of Boston, by J. J. Hawes.jpg, View of Boston, c. 1860s-1880s
Image:DanielWebster byJJHawes MFABoston.jpeg, Daniel Webster, c. 1883
Image:LemuelShaw ca1883 byJJHawes MFABoston.jpeg, Lemuel Shaw, c. 1883
Image:SelfPortrait ca1890 byJJHawes MFABoston.jpeg, Self-portrait, c. 1890
Image:SelfPortrait2 ca1890 byJJHawes MFABoston.jpeg, Self-portrait, c. 1890
Image:SelfPortrait ca1895 byJJHawes MFABoston.jpeg, Self-portrait, c. 1895

References

Further reading

* Treasures in Pictures; Many Famous Photographs Made by the Veteran Josiah Johnson Hawes. Boston Daily Globe, Feb 21, 1898. p. 9.
* Josiah Johnson Hawes, dies in his ninety-fourth year. Boston Transcript, Aug.9, 1901.
* Oldest Photographer Dead; He Was Josiah Johnson Hawes, Friend of Dickens, Rufus Choate, and Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901. p. 7.
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External links

* WorldCat
Hawes, Josiah Johnson 1808-1901

Boston Public Library
on Flickr. Josiah Johnson Hawes Photographs

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
works by J.J. Hawes

Boston Athenaeum
works by J.J. Hawes.

George Eastman House, on Flickr
works by Southworth & Hawes


2005 exhibition of Southworth & Hawes


works by J.J. Hawes

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Commercial photographers
Pioneers of photography
1808 births
1901 deaths
Artists from Boston
Phillips Academy alumni
19th century in Boston
19th-century American photographers