Hans P. Kraus Jr.
Calvert R. Jones (1802-1877) | Photographs and Drawings
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Calvert R. Jones (1802-1877) | Photographs and Drawings
Exhibition Description
The Reverend Calvert Richard Jones (1802-1877), a Welsh marine artist, is recognized as one of the most talented and sophisticated of the early photographers. This exhibition includes newly discovered daguerreotypes and works from his personal collection.
Pencil sketches and watercolors by Jones demonstrate his allegiance to the academic tradition. Influenced by James Duffield Harding, his drawing master and John Ruskin’s teacher, Calvert Jones derived truth from nature and found in photography an accurate means of producing studies for artists. As William Henry Fox Talbot’s most successful pupil, he began to explore the fusion of the new art with his sketching, particularly in his Mediterranean travels.
In the first decade of landscape and architectural photography, no individual proved more consequential to the art than did Calvert Jones. As a competent draughtsman schooled in the rules of perspective and form and as a skilled daguerreotypist, Jones conveyed a vitality and an unusually high degree of artistic sensitivity to the new medium of photography.
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Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc., established in New York in 1984, is most recognized for representing the work of William Henry Fox Talbot and other early photographers. Recently the gallery has been including more recent and contemporary artists whose work is inspired by, and resonates with, that of the earliest photographers. Kraus is a member of the ADAA and AIPAD and participates in Paris Photo and AIPAD | The Photography Show. The gallery publishes monographs and catalogues under the series title Sun Pictures.
Calvert R. Jones (Welsh, 1802-1877)
Soldiers in formation, Chiatamone, Naples
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