- Also known as
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Ferdinand Joubert
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primary name: Joubert, Jean Ferdinand
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other name: Joubert, Ferdinand
- Details
- individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; painter/draughtsman; French; English; Male
- Life dates
- 1810-1884
- Address
- 36 Porchester Terrace, London (1855-71)
36 Camden Road, London (1881)
- Biography
- Painter, line and mezzotint engraver, etcher and photographer; born in Paris, according to Benezit, pupil of Henriquel-Dupont at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1829; exhibited at the Salon (1840-65), also at the Exposition Universelle in 1878. Malcolm J Givans (personal communication, September 2012) adds that he seems to have been domiciled in England from the early 1830s: there are references in the British press from that period, and the 'Morning Post', 13 May 1842, states that he was married "On the 7th Inst., at Mickleover, near Derby, by the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Curson ... to Francis Emelia, eldest daughter of the late James Bennett Esq., of Manchester." Joubert engraved the likeness of Queen Victoria and used on national postage stamps printed by De La Rue from 1855, the year in which he was naturalised as a British Subject. He exhibited engraved portraits at the RA (1855-61) and was awarded the Silver Medal by the Society of Arts for his process "Application of Photography to the Production of Images on Glass which can be burnt in" ('Daily News', 21 November, 1861). In 1867, Joubert exhibited at the Paris International Exhibition and won a silver medal for photography ('The Morning Post', 3 July 1867). He was still working on an engraving for 'The Art Journal' at the time of his death in Menton. (Obituary in 'The Art Journal', 1885).
- Bibliography
- IFF
Information from Malcolm J Givans
