Peter Welling
Two unknown children
About this artwork
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artist:
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title:Two unknown children
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Daguerreotype
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object type:
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell, 1985
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accession number:PGP R 35
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Peter Welling
Peter Welling
Peter Welling was a studio photographer, working in New York in the 1850s and 1860s. As early as 1853 eighty-five other portrait studios were operating there. He specialised in portraiture using the daguerreotype process.