Nicolaas Henneman

Nicolaas Henneman

Nicolaas Henneman (born November 8, 1813 in Heemskerk , † January 18, 1898 in London ) was a Dutch photographer.

Life

Nicolaas Henneman was born in Heemskerk, the fifth of thirteen children of Arie Engelsz Henneman (* 1778; † 1840) and Petronella Waagmeester (* around 1783; † 1855). By 1827 he no longer lived with his parents, but worked as a house servant in The Hague .

In February 1838 , Henneman suddenly appears as a servant to William Henry Fox Talbot at his country estate in Lacock and is soon involved in his photographic experiments. In 1844 he settled in Reading to promote commercial exploitation there. In the same year, his first major assignment was to print the world's first book illustrated with photographs, Talbot's " The Pencil of Nature ". Nevertheless, the studio in Reading was not a long-term commercial success and was therefore relocated to London three years later. Shortly thereafter, Henneman, meanwhile married to Sarah Price ( July 28, 1846 ), was appointed court photographer to the British Queen Victoria . However, none of his photographs of the royal family have survived.

He accompanied the London World Exhibition of 1851 as one of the official photographers.

Henneman had to give up his business in 1858 for economic reasons and worked as an assistant to another photographer in Birmingham until 1868 . From his return until his death he lived in the same apartment in London.

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