Amelia Elizabeth Guppy

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy
Born 1808
Hertfordshire
Died 1886
Nationality United Kingdom
Known for photography

Amelia Elizabeth Guppy or Amelia Parkinson (1808 – 1886) was an early photographer from the United Kingdom.

Life

Guppy was born in Hertfordshire in 1808 to Richard and Lucy Robinsons who were a well off family[1] who lived at Kinnersley Castle. She studied art under David Cox.[2] She left home with a lawyer named Robert Guppy in 1834 who she married and they had four children. They moved to Trinidad to assist with the emancipation of the slaves as her brother in law owned plantations there. She spent time sketching travelling around the island on a mule.[1]

Still life with ancient Babylonian artifacts on books, salted paper print, 1853, Houghton Library
Stekesley (sic) Castle; Attributed to Amelia Elizabeth Guppy

Her earliest known picture is of her child in 1847.[3] In 1854 she recorded Stokesay Castle. She is known for her photographs including the many she made for the eccentric English bibliophile Thomas Phillipps. Her children included Robert John Lechmere Guppy who was brought up at Kinnersley Castle by Richard and Lucy Robinson whilst Guppy was still in Trinidad.[4]

At the age of 63 she set out on an adventure to Venezuela. She travelled alone around the Orinoco River keen to capture the orchids there.[1]

Guppy died in 1886 and many of her works were destroyed by being stored badly during the second world war.[3]

Works

  • Photographs at Middle Hill by Guppy and Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1846–53
  • Photographs of the MS. roll of Homer's Iliad., 1862
  • Mrs. Guppy's photographs of charters, seals, & antiquities at Middle Hill.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Griffiths, Alan. "Luminous-Lint - Photographer - Amelia Elizabeth Guppy". www.luminous-lint.com. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  2. ↑ "Amelia Elizabeth Guppy (1808-1886)". Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  3. 1 2 Roger Taylor; Larry John Schaaf (2007). Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 322–. ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1.
  4. ↑ "Kinnersley Castle History | Herefordshire Past". herefordshirepast.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
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