Albert Southworth - West Fairlee, VT - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

Within a few years of the invention of the daguerreotype, photographic studios began springing up all over. They became especially popular in the United States where, by 1853, it is estimated that over three million daguerreotypes were being produced annually. One of the more prominent studios at that time was Southworth & Hawes of Boston, Massachusetts.

The daguerreotype was introduced to America by Samuel F. B. Morse who traveled to France to see the process firsthand. Yes, this is the same Samuel F. B. Morse who invented the telegraph and who was also a prominent portrait painter. Albert Southworth was a student of Samuel F. B. Morse when he was teaching art and sculpture at NYU. Southworth and Hawes are considered to be the first great American masters of photography, elevating portrait photography to an art form.

Southworth & Hawes’ client list reads like a who’s who of mid nineteenth century Massachusetts. A sampling of their famous portraits includes politicians Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams, authors Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ralph Waldo Emerson, historian Francis Parkman, sewing machine inventor Elias Howe, Civil War nurse Dorothea Dix and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. They also photographed some international personalities such as Louis Kossuth of Hungary and Kings Kamehameha IV and V of Hawaii.
(Source: wikipedia.com)

Description: Albert Southworth’s grave is located in the small, very rural Bloodbrook cemetery in West Fairlee, Vermont. Date of birth: 03/12/1811 Date of death: 03/03/1894 Area of notoriety: Other Marker Type: Other Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: none Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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