Camille Silvy

Camille Léon Louis Silvy (* 1834 in Nogent -le- Rotrou, Eure- et- Loir, † 1910 in Saint- Maurice) was a French photographer.

Life and work

Camille Silvy came from an aristocratic family. He spent nearly ten years in England in the heyday of the " cartes de visite " during the 1860s and quickly established itself as one of the leading landscape and portrait photographer in London. With the exception of Queen Victoria, Silvy photographed all members of the royal family and the majority of the British aristocracy. Due to health problems Silvy 1868 returned to France, where he died in 1910.

The French, living in England nobles Camille Silvy was next to Antoine Claudet, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Walston Caselton and sisters Marion, Jane and Anna Dixon, the most skilful landscape and portrait photographers of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. One of his most famous paintings was born about 1860 - the river scene.

Photographs

Henry Brougham Loch, about 1861

Unknown woman, about 1860

Scene on a river in France, 1858

Photography and painting in the 19th century

Wilhelm Busch: Large Still life with dead hare, 1870