MEMBERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE OF UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, THAT CONVENED AT YORK, JANUARY 23RD, 1868:
1868. Folio [18 x 22 inches] vintage albumen composite of 36 photographic portraits, with four addition small oval albumen portraits, recto mounted with blank verso. Titled with letterpress; one of the small portraits has a pasted on name, likely a correction. Light surface abrasions to the small individual portraits. The blank verso shows acid stains. A very good copy. Item #54372
Norval H. Busey, Photographer and Painter:
"Born in Virginia to Methodist clergyman Thomas H. Busey in 1845, Norval Busey settled with his family in Baltimore between 1850 and 1860. According to Maryland historian Ross J. Kelbaugh’s biography of Busey, the young man worked for photographers Stanton & Butler until 1867, when he opened his own studio in York, Pennsylvania.
By 1870, Busey had returned to Baltimore with his wife, Emma, and their three daughters, Blanche, Rosamund, and Emma. In 1900, Busey, now a widower, had relocated to New York city, where he opened a gallery and associated with the artists of the Salmagundi Club.
Busey, who is said to have studied in Paris under Bouguereau, was ultimately more interested in painting than in photography. A number of his portraits of members of the Duke family hang in the Duke University Lilly Library, including Benjamin N. Duke, his wife, Sarah Pearson Duke, and their children, Angier and Mary.
Busey also showed the works of other artists in his photography studio and gallery, including Arthur Quartley’s seascapes.
He died at the Hinsdale, Illinois home of his fourth daughter, Ina Hamilton Butler, second wife of Chicago publisher Burridge Davenal Butler, on May 20th, 1928. He is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore. Busey’s only son, Norval H. Busey, Jr., became an attorney." From: Archeology of Maryland photographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Price: $75.00