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Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1808-1901
A self-taught artist, Josiah Hawes (left), shown with his brothers, earned his living for more than a decade as an itinerant painter of portrait miniatures and other works before turning to daguerreotypy in 1841. Two years later he joined A. Southworth & Co., the Boston daguerreian gallery that soon would be known as Southworth & Hawes. Hawes shared camera duties with Albert Sands Southworth, who cited his partner's credentials as an artist in advertisements promoting their portrait business, a partnership that endured until 1862.
Southworth & Hawes Studio, c 1848 |