Evening star., 1921-07-17

made his "daguerretype'' known to the
s% .ssn 1.c fssn sa H. s:
ocean. Prof Draper produced his nrst photo
graphic portrait the world had seen. like
ly short exposure Of only ninety seconds"
Brady's natural business sense and his mer-
camille training showed him the chance for q
career which this new invention opened, and IL
was but . short time before he had q gallery
on Broadway and was well launched upon the
trait. to al eomers. % Hs was successfpi from rom
the start In 1851 his work took q prize At
the London World: Fair. In the 80. be
brought over Alexander Gardner. an expert in
the new revolutionary vet plate process. which
Gare 4 negative furnishing many prints in
sssao the .. one ana
civil war he became the fashionable photog-
rapher Of his day.
RADY'S life as told by him to
George Alfred Townsend and as
reported by Mr.. Townsend is some-
what different from that outlined in
the above sketch. There is no men
tion OF A. T. Stewart. But let US
thirty years ago:
How old are you, Mr.. Brady?'
"Mr Brsdy-Never ask that Of a
lady or Photographer: they are
sensitive. I will tell you. for fear
you might find it out, that l 60 back
to the year 1924. that my birthplace
was Warren county, n. Y. in the
woods about Lake George. and that
my father was an Irishman.
place to drop into art from?
"Mr. Brady-Ah! But There was
saratogs. where 1 met William Page:
the artist. who painted Pages Venus.
He took an interest in me and gave
me a bundle of his crayons to copy.
came q pupil Of Prof. Morse in New
York city. who was then painting
portraits at starvation prices in the
university rookery. on Washington
square. was introduced to Mr..
Morse; he had just come home from
his telegraphic alphabet. of which
his mind was so full that he could
give but little attention to. a re-
a friend Of his, had made in France.
"Mr: Townsend-was Dasuerre
mt. Brady-He was. Daguerre had
travelled In this country. exhibiting
dissolving views. and Morse. had
known him. While Morse was abroad
Daguerre and Niepce had. after many
sensitive chemicals. but they applied
it chiefly or only to copying scenes
Morse, as q portrait painter. thought
of 1t as something to reduce the Ia
bor of his portraits. He had a loft
in his brothers structure; at nassau
graph stretched and an embryo cam
ara also at work. He ordered one Of
Daruerre's cameras for a MI. Wolf,
who felt an interest In the new
science: Prof: John ,a,.d w; Draper nshaaS and q
eminent chemists. 1t was Draper
VIII invented the enameling of q
6a 6aerreotype, and I entered at last
into the business. say. in 1929. Ny
studio was at the corner OF Broad
way and Fulton streets. y, Where .n Ire. l re.
Of the civil war. 1 then moved up
Rroadway to between White and
FrSnkiin, and latterly to 10th street,
maintaining also q gallery In wash
ington city. From hs,ataon the nrst resArav to my
ed sdps!y %yse Is prs.erve pnasa the faces Of its
, historic men and mothers.
Mr. Brady was man OF fuli an3
rich memory. He had talked with.
posed. photographed and presumably
established pleasant relations win Sa,,
Houston Of Texas. Walker the fili-
buster, Quitman. Lopez the revolu-
tionist. Andrew jackson, Morse,
FATHER Matthew. the temperance
apostle; Kossuth, Webster, Benton,
Cass, Edgar Allen Poe, John Howard
Payne, winfield Scott. Zacariah . lay.
Jennie Lind. Pareppa Rosa. Albert
Gallatin, Washington Irving. Fannie
Ellsler, the elder Booth and thousanos
Of others. If you had known one OF
these persons, that memory woulo
probably be the chief note OF your
/ a
| around by this society and that asso-
citation to tell your personal recoLiec.
| tions Of this great fellow and that
Among the clippings which Mr.:
| Brady preserved and which he seemed
to think much of was long story on
the subject Of his gallery and collec-
ton written for The Evening Star in
| 1891 by John F. Coyle. And these
stories done by Mr.. coyle are excel.
| lent pieces Of newspaper work with 9
fine literary flavor. THERE'S nothing
careless and sloppy in them: am 60
ing to take from Mr.. Coyle's stories
| the names of people whose portraits
he saw in Brady's collection. other
than those already mentioned. Here
they are:
stT AIDES prominent in Washington
Il and New York society: Mrs. A
v, Brown, whose husband was Mr
Buchanan's Postmaster General, and
who died while in once; Mrs. Jacob
Thompson, Mrs. Cobb. Mrs. Black, Miss
Belle Cass. who subsequently became
Nine. Limborg; Mrs. Fitzpatrick OF
! Alabama, now Mrs, Judge Clopton, one
| of the most attractive from her power
of repartee and conversational bril-.
| liancy; Mrs. George H Pugh Of Ohio
| and. her sister. Mrs. Marshall Of Cali.
| fornia, two Of the handsomest Of that
! distinguished thropg which boasted