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SEVASTYANOV, PETR IVANOVITCH
(1811–1867)
Archeologist, traveler, photographer
Petr Sevastyanov was born in 1811 to the family of
merchants who were honorary citizens of the town Kras-
noslobodsk in the Penza province. In 1831 he graduated
from the Moscow University. Commissioned by the
Ministry of Justice he worked in Perm, Tifl is (T’bilisi),
and St. Petersburg. In 1852 he was honored with the title
of the Full Secret Counselor. While staying in Paris in
1858, Sevastyanov took lessons in photography for a
month from the photographer Belloni preparing himself
for an expedition to Athos.
Sevastyanov organized two expeditions to Athos.
The fi rst important series of photographs devoted to the
Holy Mountain was taken during the fi rst expedition
in 1857; the second expedition lasted for 14 months
(1859–1860). Painters, architects ,and photographers
took part in these expeditions. Sevastyanov photo-
graphed the rare manuscripts and icons of the Athos
monasteries. He brought 1300 negatives back with
him. Sevastyanov’s prints made it possible to read the
manuscripts’ faded ink texts. This was the fi rst instance
where photography aided the restoration of such rare
documents.
In February 1858 Sevastyanov made a report “On
photograpy in application to archeology” in Paris on
the basis of the fi rst Athos expedition. In 1861 and 1862
Sevastyanov’s prints were a success in St. Petersburg
and Moscow exhibitions. Sevastyanov was the fi rst to
use photography to the document research on Athos
monasteries.
Sevastyanov died in St. Petersburg in 1867.
Alexei Loginov
SHADBOLT, GEORGE (1819–1901)
English
North London timber merchant George Shadbolt was an
early experimenter in micro-photography and a leading
fi gure of the Microscopic Society.
He was a founder member of the Photographic Society
and exhibited many subjects at its 1854–1857 exhibitions
using wax-paper, wet-collodion and his own ‘collodion
honey process’ to produce his favored matt salt prints—he
disliked the ‘glare’ of albumen paper. He was also a
member of the Photographic Exchange Club.
Shadbolt’s earliest exhibits were portraits, some
enlarged from small negatives (he appears to have used
his camera as a form of enlarger, using gaslight to make
the prints). His later studies were all views made in and
around Hornsey, North London, which then was then
quite rural.
Shadbolt contributed several articles to the Journal
of the Photographic Society and the Liverpool & Man-
chester British of Photographic Journal which later
became The British Journal of Photography. He was
also vice president of the North London Photographic
Association and a member of the Amateur Photographic
Association.
He seems to have retired from photography around
1864, however, his son Cecil became a pioneer aerial
photographer, taking vertical pictures from a balloon in- C.V. Shadbolt also photographed the Holy Land,
illustrating H. A. Harper’s Walks in Palestine, published
in 1888. He was killed in a ballooning accident in 1892,
his father died nine years later.
Ian Sumner
SHERLOCK, WILLIAM (1813–1889)
English
Sherlock was born at Lambeth, South London, in 1813,
his father, also William, was a solicitor and William ju-
nior followed his father’s profession. In 1843 Sherlock
wrote to William Henry Fox Talbot requesting permis-
sion to open a London photographic portrait studio.
After several exchanges, Talbot offered the concession
for Bristol, but Sherlock declined.
Sherlock contributed over 40 photographs to the 1852
Society of Arts London Exhibition, all but one from
paper negatives. The subjects depicted rural scenes: A
Group of Peasants, Pollard Willows and Rustic Bridge
were typical titles. By 1855 he was using wet-collodion
to produce his negatives, printing on salted paper.
Sherlock’s large body of work was originally attrib-
uted to John Whistler but as Ken Jacobson has shown
in his 1996 work Etude d’Apres Nature, this was an
incorrect assumption due to a large number of his works
in the collection of the Whistler family.