Olivier Sarony

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Olivier François Xavier Sarony (* 1820 in Québec ; † August 30, 1879 in Scarborough ) was a photographer.

Life

Olivier Sarony was born in Québec to a lithographer who had immigrated from Birmingham . In 1843 he moved to England, where he changed his first name to Oliver. He initially worked without a permanent studio as a daguerreographer in cities like Bradford , Chesterfield , Mansfield , Huddersfield , Hull , Lincolnshire and Doncaster . In 1854 he settled in Wiesbach for a short time, after which he spent a year in Cambridge and another in Norwich . In 1857 he settled in Scarborough. There he had a studio built by the architects John and David Petch, which bore the ambitious name Gainsborough House and, among other things, owned a long gallery. It was decorated in the Louis-quinze style. Up to 110 people were employed in the studio at the same time. Sarony's studio was considered the largest photo studio in Europe. It has not survived.

Olivier Sarony was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck for his brave behavior during a severe storm in Scarborough on November 2, 1861.

Sarony earned his living not only with photos of noble and famous personalities, often enlarged and painted over with oil, but also with the depiction of paintings and not least with technical innovations. Among other things, he invented a head holder. In 1871 his photo studio was considered the largest in Europe.

In that year Olivier Sarony created a picture that was later executed as a painting by T. Jonas Baker. It showed the Prince of Wales Edward surrounded by Scarborough townspeople on the seaside resort's promenade. Sarony sold the places in the picture for 100 guineas each . The picture hangs in the Scarborough Town Hall today.

Olivier Sarony suffered from diabetes in the later years of his life and eventually died after collapsing on the street. He was buried in Scarborough cemetery.

His business continued under the name Sarony & Co. until the 20th century. For some time it was run by Samuel Waind Fisher, who married Jennie Sarony, a daughter of Olivier Sarony's younger brother Napoleon .

In 2010 the exhibition The Brothers Sarony was shown at the National Portrait Gallery (London) .

literature

  • Steve Edwards, The Making of English Photography: Allegories , Pennsylvania State Univ. 2006, ISBN 978-0271027135 , p. 84 ff.

Web links

Commons : Olivier Sarony  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pocklington Post
  2. ^ National Portrait Gallery
  3. ↑ Scarborough tour (PDF; 49 kB)
  4. ↑ Storm
  5. ^ David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord , Musée du Québec 1992, ISBN 2-7637-7235-8 , p. 737
  6. ↑ Prince Edward and the promenade picture  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.helenbirmingham.com  
  7. ↑ Frecker
  8. ↑ exhibition
personal data
SURNAME Sarony, Olivier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarony, Olivier François Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer, daguerreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1879
Place of death Scarborough