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King, B. F.

Daguerreotypes, ,

1846-1848       Rooms at 217 Baltimore, Street, near Charles, Baltimore, Maryland.

1846 September 18.  American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  September 18, 1846, Volume XV, No. 69, p. 3.

King’s Daguerrian Gallery, 217 Baltimore Street, (Near Charles.)  The Oldest Establishment in the City.  With light expressly adapted to the Art, the most superior Apparatus, and certain Chemicals, the Proprietor, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most correct and beautifully toned Daguerreian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Citizens and Strangers are invited to call and examine specimens.

Hours of operating from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.  Instructions given and all materials furnished.      

Advertisement ran from September 18 to December 31, 1846.

1846 October 3.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  October 3, 1846, Vol. XIX, No. 120, P. 2.

King’s Daguerrian Gallery, 217 Baltimore Street, (Near Charles.)  The Oldest Establishment in the City.  With light expressly adapted to the Art, the most superior Apparatus, and certain Chemicals, the Proprietor, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most correct and beautifully toned Daguerreian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Citizens and Strangers are invited to call and examine specimens.

Hours of operating from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.  Instructions given and all materials furnished.      

Advertisement ran from October 3 to November 3, 1846.

1846 November 4.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  November 4, 1846, Vol. XIX, No. 147, P. 3.

King’s Daguerrian Gallery, 217 Baltimore Street, (Near Charles.)  The oldest establishment in the city.  With light expressly adapted to the Art, the proprietor, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most correct and beautiful toned Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Portraits taken in cloudy weather.

Advertisement ran from November 4 to December 4, 1846.

1846 December 5.  American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  December 5, 1846, Volume XV, No. 126, p. 2.

King’s Daguerrian Rooms.  We paid a visit yesterday to the Daguerrian Gallery of Mr. King, No. 217 Baltimore, near Charles street, and inspected his numerous portraits and miniatures of various sizes.  We recognized the Daguerreotypes of a number of our well known citizens, among them the following, taken in most admirable style:  Messrs. Jonathan Meredith, Frederick Pinckney, B. H. Richardson, James V. Wagner, A. L. Fogg, A. G. Ridgely, Capt. Poor, of the Md. Cadets, Dr. Horwitz, Dr. A. F. Dulin and lady, Rev. Mr. Collins, Rev. Mr. Hildt, Rev. Mr. Keppler, Rev Mr. Shrigley, Rev. Mr. Jones, and the well-known “Razor Strop Man,” &c., &c.  No Person, on visiting the Gallery, can fail to recognize some friend or acquaintance “as natural as life,” and be well pleased with the visit.  Mr. King has an excellent room, with the best apparatus, and persons wishing their portraits or miniatures taken satisfactorily, cannot do better than give him a call.

1846 December 5.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  December 5, 1846, Vol. XX, No. 16, P. 2.

King’s Daguerrian Gallery, 217 Baltimore Street, (Near Charles.)  The oldest establishment in the city.  With light expressly adapted to the Art, the proprietor, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most correct and beautiful toned Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Portraits taken in cloudy weather.

Advertisement ran from December 5, 1846 to January 5, 1847.

1847 January 6.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  January 6, 1847, Vol. XX, No. 42, P. 3.

King’s Daguerrian Gallery, 217 Baltimore Street, (Near Charles.)  The oldest establishment in the city.  With light expressly adapted to the Art, the proprietor, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most correct and beautiful toned Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Portraits taken in cloudy weather.

Advertisement ran from January 6 to February 11, 1847.

1847 March 13.  American Whig.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  March 13, 1847, Vol. 1, No. 14, P. 3.

Daguerreotype Miniatures.  The most perfect Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited, are constantly being taken by King, at his Gallery, No. 217 Baltimore Street, near Charles.  Citizens and Strangers, will be sure of being pleased, with correct and beautiful copies of themselves, by calling at the above number, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p. m.  Satisfaction in all cases guaranteed.

Instructions given and all materials furnished.

1847 December 23.  Baltimore Patriot And Commercial Gazette.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  December 23, 1847, Vol. 70, No. 149, Whole No. 10,703, P. 2.

A Gift.—Do you wish to present a friend with a suitable Christmas Present?  Then call at King’s and get one of his beautiful finished Daguerreotypes.  Miniatures are taken by him in a most superior style, and suited to a locket, frame or case, of any description, on the shortest notice, And Equal To Any In Country.  Persons are invited to call and examine and judge for themselves.—Rooms 217 Baltimore St.

Advertisement ran from December 23, 1847 to January 3, 1848.

1848 April 8.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  April 8, 1848, Vol. XXII, No. 120, P. 2.

Those Beautiful Pictures.—Strangers would do well to call and get one of King’s Daguerreotypes before they leave the city.  We know of no more beautiful presents to a friend than one of those much admired portraits, and we can recommend King’s likenesses as superior to others taken in Baltimore, in point of durability, distinctness and finish.  Rooms 217 Baltimore street, near Charles.

1848 April 15.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  April 15, 1848, Vol. XXII, No. 126, P. 3.

The Name And Place.—We take great pleasure in referring our readers to Mr. King’s Daguerrean Establishment for superior Daguerreotypes.  Strangers respectfully invited to call and examine some of the finest specimens of the art ever produced.  His great skill in the art, together with his superior arrangement of light , enables him to produce those beautiful Portraits no where else seen.  Call and see, at 217 Baltimore street.

1848 April 28.  The Sun.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  April 28, 1848, Vol. XXII, No. 137, P. 2.

King’s Daguerrian Rooms.  The Oldest Establishment in the City.  Likenesses, of rare merit, are daily executed at this establishment, in any style and any weather.  The eye, the dress, and every expression of the countenance, are fully, naturally, and beautifully brought out in King’s Portraits.

Persons are invited to examine the specimens and judge for themselves.

Rooms 217 Baltimore St., near Charles.

Advertisement ran on April 28 & 29, 1848.

1848 May 22.  Baltimore Patriot And Commercial Gazette.  (Baltimore, Maryland.) May 22, 1848, Vol. 71, No. 121, Whole No. 10,822, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.  With Light expressly adapted to the Art, the most superior Apparatus, and certain Chemicals, Mr. King, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most perfect and beautiful toned Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Opinions of the Peress—“Mr. King’s Pictures unite superior accuracy of likeness, rare grace, and delicacy of execution, in a remarkable degree.”  American.

Rooms—217 Baltimore Street, near Charles.  Remember the name—“King.”  The oldest establishment in the city.

Advertisement ran from May 23 to 27, 1848.

1848 May 24.  The Baltimore Clipper.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  May 24, 1848, Col. XVIII, No. 114, P. 3.

Daguerreotypes.  With Light expressly adapted to the Art, the most superior Apparatus, and certain Chemicals, Mr. King, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, has been enabled to produce the most perfect and beautiful toned Daguerrian Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Opinions of the Peress—“Mr. King’s Pictures unite superior accuracy of likeness, rare grace, and delicacy of execution, in a remarkable degree.”  American.

Rooms—217 Baltimore Street, near Charles.  Remember the name—“King.”  The oldest establishment in the city. m3.

Advertisement was recorded three times between May 24 to June 1, 1848.

1848 October 23.  Baltimore Patriot And Commercial Gazette.  (Baltimore, Maryland.) October 23, 1848, Vol. 72, No. 91, Whole No. 10,957, P. 2.

Daguerreotype Portraits.  King’s Gallery.  217 Baltimore Street, (near Charles.)  Mr. King, by giving his constant personal attention to his profession, and by the use of certain improved Chemicals and the most superior Apparatus, with Light expressly adapted to the Art, is enabled to produce the finest toned and most beautiful Daguerreotype Miniatures that have ever been exhibited.

Opinions of the Peress—“Mr. King’s Pictures unite superior accuracy of likeness, rare grace, and delicacy of execution, in a remarkable degree.”  American.

“In taking a faithful representation of the sitter, correct in resemblance, distinct in outline and finish in execution, Mr. King is unsurpassed.”—Patriot.

“Mr. King’s Miniatures are acknowledged, by good judges of the art, to be of the highest order in the scale of merit.  They unite to a faithful likeness, a clear eye, distinct features, beautiful drapery, &c.”—Sun.

Remember the name—“King,” and the number 217 Baltimore Street.  The oldest establishment in the city.

Advertisement ran from October 23 to November 20, 1848.

Kerfoot & King

Daguerreotypes, , ,

1845                Rooms 197½ & 218 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland.                        1845                Rooms 163 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland.

Kerfoot & King (B. F. King) were recorded in an advertisement and an announcement in the American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper (Baltimore, Maryland).  The advertisement ran from February 5 to September 17, 1845.  Photographic Likenesses.  Taken on an improved principle by Kerfoot & King.  A favorable opportunity is now offered to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Baltimore, to obtain Miniature Portraits in the most perfect style of execution, which for life-like beauty, distinctness and accuracy, are acknowledged to be unsurpassed.  Children taken at all ages, in from four to ten seconds.  Adults in from fifteen seconds to one minute.  Families taken in groups; also invalids and deceased persons taken at their residence on the shortest notice.  Likenesses taken in all kinds of weather and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases.  Original Paintings are likewise correctly copied.

Rooms 197½ and 218 south side of Baltimore Street between Charles and Light streets, where persons are respectfully invited to call and examine specimens and judge for themselves.  Miniatures colored in the most beautiful manner.

The announcement appeared on April 29, 1845.  City Intelligence…Mr. Editor, Knowing you to be a gentleman of particular observation and a lover of the fine arts, and also that your calling leads you to observe and note what combines novelty, interest and merit, the pure test of the march of improvement and discovery, I will not presume, that, in your peregrination over the surface of our fair city, you have failed to notice the attractive show of Daguerrean likenesses, taken by the Messrs. King & Kerfoot, at their gallery of paintings, no. 163 Baltimore St.  Any one, having a leisure moment, would be ample repaid for even a passing glance at their numerous specimens: for I take it upon me to say, that Plumbe, or Anthony and Edwards, though they be masters of this art, are unable more perfectly “to hold the mirror up to Nature:” nor do I believe, that the general outline and features of the face can be more vividly and truthfully portrayed.  But these gentlemen have silenced the only remaining doubt as to the rank they are destined to occupy among the description of artists: for they have taken, as any one may see at the foot of the stairs, the identical “Only a few more left”—the genuine razor-strop man—basket, strops, and his speaking card.  Look and see if it can  be beaten.   A Visitor.

Kerfoot is not recorded in other photographic directories.  B. F. King is recorded, but the partnership and the 1845 date is new information.