Adolphe Duperly

Adolphe Duperly (1801–1865) was a French engraver, lithographer and printer who settled in Kingston, Jamaica, and who produced daguerreotypes and then founded a photography business.

Duperly was born in Paris, but was in Jamaica in the 1830s and produced a lithograph of the 1831 Baptist War and the emancipation celebrations in Kingston in 1838.

He also provided a pictorial chronicle of African-Caribbean people in the 1830s.

[1] He established Adolphe Duperly and Sons, which became the most successful photography business in Jamaica.

The company was continued after his death by his son, Armond, and grandson Théophile.

The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq . Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833.
Falmouth taken from the Church Tower