Llewelyn, John Dillwyn, 1810-1882
<p>John Dillwyn Llewelyn (12 January 1810 – 24 August 1882) was a botanist and pioneer photographer.</p> <p>In January 1839, following the announcements of photographic processes by both William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Llewelyn, with the encouragement of Henry Talbot, began to experiment himself.</p> In 1856 he announced his own oxymel process which allowed collodion negatives to be preserved over many days.</p> <p>Llewelyn moved to London in 1879 and died on 24 August 1882 at his home, Atherton Grange, in Wimbledon.</p>
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