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The Truefitt Brothers
Photographs
in Exhibitions
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Peter Truefitt and
William P Truefitt worked together as The Truefitt Brothers
from their home address, 72 Princes Street from 1856 until 1863
Their father was also a Photographic Artist,
named William.
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Below are some early adverts that I have found for the Truefitt
Brothers' studio:
Advertisement
The Scotsman 16 August 1856, page 1
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TRUEFITT BROTHERS
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS
72, PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH
(Immediately opposite the National
Galleries)
PRICES FROM 2s. 6d.
The Operating Room being
constructed on a new principle is admirably adapted for the
arrangement of Groups, and for Stereoscopic Portraits.
Copies of Casts, Busts,
Statuettes, Models, Oil and Water Colour Paintings, and Engravings,
accurately and artistically rendered.
72 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH |
Advertisement
The Scotsman 18 January 1859, page 1
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BURNS CENTENARY FESTIVAL!
__________
Now ready.
A SET of FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS (taken
on the spot), of the LAND of BURNS, including his BIRTHPLACE and
MONUMENT forming the best and cheapest Memento of SCOTLAND'S
GREATEST POET.
TRUEFITT BROTHERS
72, PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH
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The Truefitt Brothers
1st PSS Exhibition, Dec 1856
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The Truefitt Brothers exhibited 10 coloured collodion portraits and 4 glass
positives, one in colour in the 1856 PSS Exhibition.
There were some intriguing titles:
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“Miss Foote as Little Bo Peep”
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“Hide & Seek”
- “Guess Who it
is”
- “The
Queen of the May”.
The Caledonian Mercury reporter praised portraits by the Truefitt Brothers at
this exhibition, along with those of Claudet, Ross & Thomson, Rodger, Hay and DO
Hill. He wrote:
“Another Exhibition has opened to delight our pleasure-loving Auld Reekieites
who are noted as dillettántí and Fine-Art rhapsodists. ….Photography
already appears scarcely less marvellous than the electric telegraph.”
[CM:22/12/1856]
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The Truefitt Brothers
2nd
Art Manufactures Association
Exhibtition |
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Truefitt
Brothers decided in 1857, along with several other Edinburgh Professional
Photographers, to exhibit their work in the Art Manufactures Association
Exhibition, rather than in the PSS Exhibition.. to exhibit their photography
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