Adolphe Duperly

The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833.
Falmouth taken from the Church Tower

Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.

Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831 Baptist War and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s. During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica.[1]

He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica. The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile.[2] The companies original premises was destroyed by fire in 1907. From 1909 their studio was 85 King Street, Kingston.[3]

  1. ^ "Adolphe Duperly and Sons". RCS Photographers Index. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  2. ^ Wright, Colin. "Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica". www.bl.uk. British Library. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Adolphe Duperly and Sons". archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk. Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 22 August 2020.