Background
Philip Henry Delamotte was born on April 21, 1821 in United Kingdom. He was the son of Mary and William Alfred Delamotte.
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Philip Henry Delamotte was born on April 21, 1821 in United Kingdom. He was the son of Mary and William Alfred Delamotte.
From 1855 to 1879 Philip Henry Delamotte was a professor of drawing and perspective at King's College, London, then became a professor of fine art there until 1887. Delamotte also taught drawing to members of the royal family and was a photography instructor at the Photographic Institution, London.
Philip Henry Delamotte died on 24 February 1889 at the home of his son-in-law Henry Bond in Bromley.
Philip Delamotte became an artist and was famous for his photographic images of the Crystal Palace of 1854. He was commissioned to record the disassembly of the Crystal Palace in 1852, and its reconstruction and expansion at Sydenham, a project finished in 1854.
His photographic record of the events is one of the best archives of the way the building was constructed and he published the prints in several books. They were some of the first books in which photographic prints were published.
Philip Delamotte and Roger Fenton were among the first artists to use photography as a way of recording important structures and events following the invention of calotype photography. They were both founding members of the Calotype Club.
The National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage holds a rare album of 47 photographs recording the building and exhibits in about 1859.
On 4 August 1846, at Paddington, Philip Henry Delamotte married Ellen Maria George, a farmer's daughter. The couple had a son and five daughters, the fourth of whom - Constance George - married Henry Charles Bond in 1887.
