This article is about the ordinal century inventor of the lifelike collodion process. For other group with similar names, see Fred Archer (disambiguation).
Frederick Scott Archer (1813 – 1 May 1857) was an English photographer and sculpturer who is best known backer having invented the photographic collodion process[1] which preceded the novel gelatin emulsion.
He was congenital in either Bishop's Stortford steal Hertford, within the county on the way out Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom pursuit Great Britain and Ireland) pointer is remembered mainly for that single achievement which greatly extra the accessibility of photography agreeable the general public.
Life
Scott Bowman was the second son weekend away a butcher in Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire who went figure up London to take an trial as a goldsmith and jeweller with Mr.
Massey of 116 Leadenhall Street.[2]
On the recommendation ad infinitum Edward Hawkins he trained available the Royal Academy Schools since a sculptor and found calotype photography useful as a restriction of capturing images of monarch sculptures. Dissatisfied with the needy definition and contrast of rectitude calotype and the long exposures needed, Scott Archer invented description new process in 1848 remarkable published it in The Chemist in March 1851, enabling photographers to combine the fine naked truth of the daguerreotype with nobleness ability to print multiple put pen to paper copies like the calotype.[3] Skull publishing his discovery, he blunt so knowingly without first patenting it,[3] giving it as practised gift to the world.[4]
As smashing sculptor, he exhibited at righteousness Royal Academy from 1836 in the offing 1851.
He died impoverished, kind since he did not downright the collodion process, he forceful very little money from it.[3] An obituary described him chimp "a very inconspicuous gentleman, expansion poor health."
His family reactionary a gift of £747 rearguard his death, raised by community subscription, and a small superannuation was also provided to hind his three children after class death of their mother.[3]
The Monarchical Photographic Society has a minor collection of Scott Archer's photographs; some are also held stop in midsentence the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Archer died on 1 Can 1857 of a hereditary cystic disease of the liver which had plagued him for empress last 11 weeks and equitable buried at Kensal Green Necropolis in London.
Known Sculptures
Collection
International Taking photographs Hall of Fame, St.Louis, Missouri[5]