The diorama in great Britain in the 1820s

Abstract

Abstract L. J. M. Daguerre (1787-1851), originally a stage designer and scene painter,1 in April 1821 formed a partnership with Charles Bouton (1781-1853) to develop a ‘Diorama’ in Paris. As Helmut and Alison Gernsheim have said in their account of the Diorama in L.J.M. Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype, it was ‘an ideal collaboration, each gaining much from the other's exoerience’. Bouton was the more exoerienced and distingulshed painter, Daguerre the greater expert in lighting and scenic effects.2