Lot 191
Campbell Art Company (AKA Alfred S. Campbell Art Company, Campbell Studio & Campbell Prints, Inc., American Publishers, c.1871-c. late 1930's) was originally founded by Alfred S. Campbell (English-American, 1840-1912) who was an English art photographer and commercial inventor. In 1867, Campbell was invited to come to the United States and form a partnership with Napoleon Sarony, under the Sarony name. Sarony had a great desire to gain access to Campbell's patented photographic process, but within four short years, their business relationship dissolved. Campbell soon decided to move to New Jersey, where he built his state-of-the-art studio which had an onsite photo imaging production facility in Elizabethtown, initially calling it "Campbell Studios". Aside from his art studio and patented photographic process for platinum photo-printing, Campbell also invented a panorama lens and held numerous patents for cameras and various paper products. Over the years, the company specialized in reproductions of well known artist's works, chromolithographs, various hand colored prints & photographs finished in watercolor & oil, 'Apographs' (hand-colored rich brown photo-gelatin prints), platinum & carbon prints, stereograph cards, scenic views, postcards, portrait cabinet cards as well as portrait and theatrical photography for stage & screen, Washington Prints which included the best of the mural decorations in the Congressional Library, as well as Campbell's patented Art-Relievo platinum photographic prints which were 3-dimensional photographic reproductions in 'absolute relief' (embossed) that he sold in the late 1890's through the early 1900's (c.1896 - c.1904). Campbell reproduced various master works, Native American Indian portraits/scenes, religious/inspirational scenes, genre scenes, boudoir images etc., by way of the Art Relievo process. What is also interesting about the Art Relievos is that, Campbell initially worked with the Carbon Studio in Manhattan, but soon hired one of their top employees, the well known American pictorialist photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (1862-1932) who later became art manager of Campbell's portrait studio at 564-568 Fifth Avenue in New York. While there, Eickemeyer, Jr. produced many of the early Art Relievo prints, carbon & platinum prints, as well as prints in watercolor, oil etc., and remained at Campbell Studios intermittently until 1915. Please ask specific questions on details, condition, and shipping prior to bidding, ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS, and bidder will be responsible for payment. We box and ship what we can to keep costs low, and use USPS and UPS. Large items, extremely fragile, and high value items will be packed by UPS. Quotes available on request
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Dimensions:
- 12" x 16" and 19.75" x 23.75" Condition:
- Very Good Condition with some light foxing on the matting
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