1857-1859 337 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut.
N. D. The New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists In America 1564-1860. (New Haven, Connecticut.) P. 296.
Hart, Alfred. Portrait painter and panoramist. Born March 28, 1816, at Norwich (Conn.), he began his art studies there and continued them in NYC. In 1848 he settled at Hartford (Conn.), where he painted a panorama of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Another panorama by Hart, showing the New Testament and the Holy Land, was exhibited in NYC in 1852. Hart was still living in Hartford in 1860, but soon after moved to the West, where he was active as an artist and inventor at least until 1878.
1850 November 9. Hartford Weekly Times. (Hartford, Connecticut.) November 9, 1850, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1768, P. 3.
Premiums Awarded By The Hartford County Agricultural Society, Oct. 1850…
Fine Arts And Art…
Alfred Hart, Hartford, best original landscape in oil, Gold Medal.
H. H. Bartlett, Hartford, best daguerreotype likenesses, gold medal.
A. Washington, Hartford for daguerreotype likenesses, silver medal.
Premiums Awarded By The Hartford County Agricultural Society, Oct., 1854…
Fine Arts. Gold Medals To…
Alfred Hart, Hartford, for fine Landscapes in Oil.
H. H. Bartlett, Hartford, Best Daguerreotype likenesses.
Silver Medals To…
R. D. O. Smith, Hartford, for Peroscopic [sic.] Daguerreotypes.
1857 July 18. The Connecticut Courant. (Hartford, Connecticut.) July 18, 1857, Vol. XCIV, No. 4826, P. 3.
Bartlett, Hart & Co.’s. Old Established Gallery of Art, 337 Main St. The proprietors have now on exhibition at their gallery, the largest and best variety of Daguerreotypes, Photographs, (colored and plain) Ambrotypes, and Photographic Portraits in oil, from the cabinet to life size, to be found in Hartford. The public may rest assured that the well earned reputation of the gentlemen connected with the different departments of this establishment, will be maintained by the constant production of the “very best pictures” in every branch of the art. Bartlett, Hart & Co., 337 Main street.
Advertisement ran from July 18, 1857 to March 19, 1859.
1857 October 10. The Connecticut Courant. (Hartford, Connecticut.) October 10, 1857, Vol. XCIV, No. 4838, P. 2.
The County Fair. From the Daily Courant of Wednesday. The County Fair opened at the City Hall, yesterday…
Fine Arts Department. Under this head the display is in many respects superior to former exhibitions.
The display on the part of the Daguerrean Artists of our city, is very fine, and they are deserving of great praise for doing so much to make the display in the Fine Arts room, so nearly complete. In fact their specimens of skill, are among the most attractive features of the room. W. H. Chase has some 28 specimens. Bartlett and Hart exhibit but one specimen, the Photograph in oil of Governor Holley. G. W. Davis has a very large and fine collection. He has on exhibition 50 Photographs and 12 Ambrotypes. N. A. Moore exhibits some 50 specimens of Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Photographs, many of them very beautiful specimens. Hartford can well afford to boast of fine Daguerreotype artists.
1858 November 11. Hartford Daily Post. (Hartford, Connecticut.) November 11, 1858, Vol. 1, No. 183, P. 2.
Visit To Mr. Hart’s Rooms.—We yesterday called upon our Artist friend, Mr. Alfred Hart, at his rooms 237(sic.) Main street, and found him, as usual, busied in the mysteries of his profession, but withal as genial in his manners and as attentive to the calls of his friends as ever. Mr. Hart is so well and favorably known to our citizens, that it seems scarcely necessary to speak in commendation of him. His portraits and landscapes are much admired. But there is a branch of his profession, less pretentious perhaps though we think really of more importance to the people, to which we wish especially to refer. We allude to the beautiful and life-like Colored Photographs of Bartlett, Hart & Co., the finishing touches to which are imparted by Mr. Hart, and which possess all the excellence of a portrait, are indeed far mor accurate and truthful, and may be procured at a much less price. The desirableness of these pictures can scarcely be over estimated. Any one possessing a daguerreotype of a deceased friend may readily, and at a small price, have substituted for it a good-sized picture, which shall be a fac-simile in expression, while the delicate process of coloring seems virtually to restore the living subject. A fine collection of these photographs may at all times be seen at the rooms of the above firm.
1859 March 22. Hartford Daily Post. (Hartford, Connecticut.) March 22, 1859, Vol. 1, No. 294, P. 2.
The Most Beautiful and Durable Pictures Ever Made By Any Process, Are Photographs painted in Oil Colors. They are made at Bartlett & Hart’s And No Where Else In The City.
The First Premium Daguerreotypes, Have always been made at Bartlett & Hart’s, And they are making those Beautiful Crayon Pictures every day. They are perfect gems. Remember that every style of good pictures are made at Bartlett & Hart’s Old Gallery 337 Main street.
Advertisement ran from March 22 to April 14, 1859.
1859 March 22. Hartford Daily Post. (Hartford, Connecticut.) March 22, 1859, Vol. 1, No. 294, P. 2.
The celebrity which Bartlett & Hart have each acquired in different branches of Art, has had the effect of creating no slight stir among their professional brethren; and what is better, has caused the Old Daguerrean Gallery, 337 Main st, to become the popular institution of Hartford, for Photographs, Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes, as well as numerous other styles of pictures, and more especially for the elegantly finished Photographs In Oil, which are undoubtedly the most beautiful perfect and valuable Cabinet Portraits ever painted. Daguerreotypes copied in every style from $1 to 50.
Advertisement ran from March 22 to September 1, 1959. September 10 to November 26, 1859,
1859 March 26. The Connecticut Courant. (Hartford, Connecticut.) March 26, 1859, Vol. XCVI, No. 4914, P. 3.
The Most Beautiful And Durable Pictures Are The Photographs Painted In Oil Colors At Bartlett & Harts, And No Where Else In This City Bartlett & Hart’s Is The Gallery Where The First Premium Daguerreotypes Have Always Been Made.
Advertisement ran on March 26 and April 2, 1859.
1859 May 25. Hartford Daily Post. (Hartford, Connecticut.) May 25, 1859, Vol. 2, No. 348, P. 2.
The Most Beautiful and Durable Pictures Ever Made By any Process Are Photographs painted in Oil Colors They are made at Bartlett & Hart’s, And Nowhere Else in the city.
The First Premium Daguerreotypes Have always been made at Bartlett & Hart’s, And they are making those beautiful Crayon Pictures every day. They are perfect gems. Remember that every style of good pictures are made at Bartlett & Hart’s Old Gallery, 337 Main street.
Advertisement ran from May 25 to September 1, 1859.
1859 August 2. Hartford Daily Post. (Hartford, Connecticut.) August 2, 1859, Vol. 2, No. 96, Whole No. 406, P. 3.
Dissolution Of Copartnership. The Copartnership heretofore existing between Bartlett & Hart, is by mutual consent this day dissolved, H. H. Bartlett, Alfred Hart, Hartford, July 30, 1859.
Pioneer American Photographers, 1839 - 1860 