Marcus Guttenberg (c.1828-1891)
Guttenberg was the son of a school teacher also called Marcus and was born in Poland. He started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist in Hungary, Pussia and Poland, he may also have worked in Berlin. It is thought that he arrived in England at around 1852 when he is recorded at a studio in Derby. He seems to have only stayed in each town he set up business in for a short time, may be initially because he did not have a patent licence from Beard to produce Daguerreotypes. He is connected with Scarborough from 1858 until at least 1862, but only seems to spend a few months in the town each year, traveling to other towns in Yorkshire and surrounding counties, presumably when things were quiet. In 1866 he settled in Bristol where he was to remain until 1880 when he moved to Manchester where he died 11 years later.
He was married twice, firstly to Elizabeth Pheasant of Snaith, Yorkshire in 1853 and later to Henrietta Pflaum. He was followed into the photography business by several of his children. One of them Alexander Percy Guttenberg managed the Manchester Studio.
Portrait of an unknown man
Carte de Visite, 1862-1862
Portrait of an unknown man,
Carte de Visite, 1858-1862
Photographic Practice
Daguerreotypes, calotype (or Talbotype) and later wet and dry collodion
Portraiture
miniatures on paper or ivory
Patents - photo-mechanical printing, 1878 (no. 1502) and photo-finishing, 1890 (No. 10,145).
Studios
Worked in Hungary, Prussia, Poland and Germany before arriving in Britain - <1851
19 London Road, Derby - 1852
Chapel Street, Harrogate - 1854
Near the Railway Station, Malton, North Riding - 1855
Market Place and Promenade, Bridlington - July 1856
Promenade, Bridlington - July 1856
opposite Field House, Whitby - 1857, 1859 and 1860
9 St Nicholas Street and Westborough, Scarborough - July 1858
opposite the Royal Hotel, Filey - August 1858
Falsgrave Walk and 7 St John Street (residence), Scarborough - 1861
at Mr Consitt’s Photographic Gallery, Skinner Street, Whitby - July to September 1861, once a week, Thursday
Westborough, Scarborough - 1862
Bridge Road, Stockton on Tees - 1867
Darlington and Stockton (on Tees) - 1867?
27 Triangle, Clifton, Bristol - c.1866
29 Triangle, Clifton, Bristol - 1868 (continued trading under M. Guttenberg after 1870 but operated by Robert Easton)
17 Royal Promenade, Clifton Bristol - 1870-1878
361 Oxford Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester - 1878-1884
Kensington House, 316 Oxford Street and Central Chambers, 26 Victoria Street, Manchester - 1884-1890
131 Oxford Street, Manchester - 1889-1891
323 Oxford Road, Manchester - 1891-1895 (after his death in 1891 managed by his son Alexander Percy)
References
Adamson, K.I.P., 1996, p5
Bayliss, A. and P., 1998, p52
Cossens, R., CartedeVisite.co.uk - Marcus Guttenberg
Heathcote, B and P, 2002, p80
Wilcock, R., 2011, p15