Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
Photographer, Visual Artist
1793 – 1870
Who was Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros?
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros was a French ambassador and one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá, Athens and Ambassador to London - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among them those of the Acropolis.
Gros led French troops in China during the Anglo-French expedition to China.
In 1858, the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan was signed in Edo on October 9, 1858, by Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, opening diplomatic relations between the two countries.
While he is best known for his daguerrotypes, his paintings of Latin American landscapes are — while few — quite striking in their realism.
He photographed The Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
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