{{Short description|French engraver, lithographer and printer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Use British English|date=March 2019}} [[File:Duperly (1833) Destruction of the Roehampton Estate January 1832.png|thumb|right|''The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq''. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833.]] [[File:Duperly (184?) Falmouth taken from the Church Tower.png|thumb|''Falmouth taken from the Church Tower'']] '''Adolphe Duperly''' (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.
Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831 Baptist War and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838. He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s. During the 1840s he published a collection of daguerreotypes of Jamaica.<ref name=RCS>{{cite web|title=Adolphe Duperly and Sons|url=http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/entry.php?id=165|website=RCS Photographers Index|publisher=Cambridge University Library|accessdate=6 January 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114810/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/entry.php?id=165|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica. The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile.<ref name="BL">{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Colin |title=Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica |url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/carviews/d/022zzzmaps19b12u000000tp.html |website=www.bl.uk |publisher=British Library |accessdate=22 August 2020}}</ref> The companies original premises was destroyed by fire in 1907. From 1909 their studio was 85 King Street, Kingston.<ref name="CUL archive">{{cite web |title=Adolphe Duperly and Sons |url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/corporate_entities/1169 |website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk |publisher=Cambridge University Library |accessdate=22 August 2020}}</ref>
==Duperly and Haiti== Duperly moved to Haiti in 1823 and became one of the teachers of the Lycée National of Haiti (Lycée Toussaint Louverture in Haiti).<ref>{{cite news | author=Staff writer | title=News | url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5805807/f4.item.r=Caminero.zoom | format=PDF | publisher=Le Télégraphe. | pages= 4–5| date=6 June 1823| accessdate=12 June 2017 }}</ref>
==References and sources== ;References {{reflist}} ;Sources {{Commons category}} {{cite news | author=Staff writer | title=News | url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5805807/f4.item.r=Caminero.zoom | format=PDF | publisher=Le Télégraphe. | pages= 4–5| date=6 June 1823| accessdate=12 June 2017 }}
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Category:French printers Category:French printmakers Category:Jamaican photographers Category:Engravers from Paris Category:Artists from Kingston, Jamaica Category:People from Port-au-Prince Category:French emigrants Category:19th-century Jamaican people
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