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| Keywords: Ambrotype Portrait of the Brown family of Honolulu, c. 1858.jpg en Portrait of the Brown family of Honolulu full-plate ambrotype c 1858 sitters' cheeks tinted period koa wood frame A fine portrait of Captain Robert Wilcox Brown 1809-1894 and his extended family taken in Honolulu Brown was born in Ledyard CT and was a sailor on several whaling vessels In April 1850 he took his family to sea on board the North Star sailing via the Azores St Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean Western Australia and the Timor Straits reaching Honolulu in October 1851 Brown bought a plot of land in Nuuanu Valley settled his family and continued to sail in the North Star and the Black Warrior The present photograph shows his family in Honolulu around 1858 from left his brother-in-law John Heppingstone daughters Mary Annie and Amanda wife Charlotte née Heppingstone daughters Charlotte Edith and Alura The photographer of this group portrait can only be guessed at; pioneering Hawaiian photographer Hugo Stangenwald sold his business in the spring of 1857 and it is not clear when Joseph W King started operating from the same premises An E D Durant may have been taking photographs in Honolulu in the interim Abramson Photographers of Old Hawaii Provenance a niece or nephew of Captain Brown manuscript note pasted on reverse identifying some sitters http //www bonhams com/auctions/17545/lot/5548/ uncertain 1858 Black and white photographs of families Ambrotypes Hawaii in the 1850s Hugo Stangenwald Historical images of Honolulu Hawaii PD-old Images from Bonhams | ||||
