"Also known as Mayer Frères
primary name: primary name: Mayer Frères
other name: other name: Mayer & Pierson
other name: other name: Mayer Frère & Pierson
other name: other name: Mayer, Ernest
other name: other name: Mayer, Frédéric
other name: other name: Mayer, Louis Frédéric
other name: other name: Mayer, Léopold Ernest
Details
individual; photographer; French; Male
Other dates
1849-1874 (fl.)
Address
Rue Vivienne 48 (1851)
Boulevard des Capucines, 3 (with Pierson, 1856)
Rue Louis le Grand, 35 (1857)
rue Vivienne, 48 (1857)
Biography
Daguerreotypists specialised in hand-coloured portraits, also sellers of photographic supplies; founded by two brothers, Louis Frédéric and Léopold Ernest Mayer; worked in collaboration with Louis Pierson (q.v.) by 1855, forming an extremely successful firm, in favour with imperial and royal courts all over Europe; they were appointed photographers to Napoléon III, the King of Wurtemberg, the King of Portugal, the King of Sweden, and the Queen of the Low countries. Pierson eventually became sole owner of the firm (1860s?) which continued to trade as 'Mayer & Pierson'; during the 1870s Pierson struck a partnership with his son in law, Gaston Braun, and the name 'Mayer & Pierson' was dropped.
Bibliography
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, 'The Legs of the Countess' in 'October', Vol. 39, (Winter, 1986), pp. 65-108
Janet E. Buerger, 'French daguerreotypes', 1989, p.223." - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG208147, 21.11.2021
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