The brothers Meade

Abstract

“The Brothers Meade (figures 1 and 2) have been too long well known and appreciated . . . to require any very extended eulogium upon their character and merits ... now their name is heard in every place in the Union, and in many places in the Old World, where they have visited, or where the art is known.“1 Although famous in their own time, only a broad outline of the Meade brothers' careers is known today, and many interesting details concerning their activities remain hidden in old records and letters. Two celebrated portraits of Daguerre, taken by Charles Meade, are in the Smithsonian Institution, but most of the Meades' vast collection containing over a thousand daguerreotypes of well-known people and places2 has been lost or dispersed. The following history focuses on some little-known aspects of the Meade Brothers and their achievements. Its primary sources are midnineteenth century publications, and the letters, memorabilia and illustrated material collected by Sarah, Henry Meade's daughter.

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