Martin Jacolette, Artist and Photographer, premises in Biggin Street, Dover c.1903 (perhaps decorated for Coronation of King Edw VII?)
premises somewhere near where the present Halifax Building Society is.
Born 1850. Died 2/12/1907.
Biography: Jacolette, Martin John: Born in Tavistock 1850. Married (1st). Eliza (b 1850 - 1930). 2 daughters.
He marred (2nd): Evelina Maud Draycott.
STUDIOS: 1). Queen's Gate Hall, 42 Harrington Road, Kensington 1890 - 1900. Successors to William Ashdown.
2). 38, 40 & 42 Harrington Road, Kensington 1900 - 1915. 3). 125 Gloucester Road, Kensington 1915 - February 26 1917.
1881: photographer living at 1 Priory Hill, Charlton, Woolwich.
1891: photographer living at 42 Harrington Road, Kensington.
1901: photographer living in Dover.
Father was a Swiss miniature painter.
Trained with Lambert Weston in Dover, manager of Weston studio before establishing own in 1881. Moved to Biggin Street, Dover 1888; to London 1890.
Member of The Royal Photographic Society from 1895; later on selection committee. Member of Professional Photographers' Association 1901; President 1906. Quartermaster Sergeant in Middlesex Yeomanry. Member of St John's Card QCC Circle of Freemasons 1907, also member of Eccentric Lodge 2488.
Died in Kensington December 2 1907; bd in Kensington Cemetery, Hanwell.
LITERATURE: (Percy Lund). Peeps at professional photographers. No XV. Martin Jacolette, Queen's Gate Hall Studio, Kensington. IN Practical Photographer March 1898 p 32; The portrait and the studio. VI. Martin Jacolette - the danger of conventionality: the art of unconscious posing. IN Photogram Vol 11 August 1904 pp 222 - 224, port; Jacolette Studios Ltd. IN Photographic Dealer December 1913 & April 1917; obituary IN BJP December 13 1907 p 941, port;
J. G. Harman. Photographers of Dover. IN Bygone Kent Vol May 1990 pp