Cesare Zani de Ferranti
Cesar de Ferranti 1831-1903
He was born in Paris the oldest son of an Italian musician. He became one of the early photographers in Belgium where he was living. He then married Juliana Scott, the eldest daughter of William Scott and moved to Liverpool. There in 1859 he opened a studio with William (in Sandon Terrace / Upper Duke Street) - a combined modern photographic and old fashioned art portrait studio, combining his new medium with his father in law's old medium. After William's death in 1862 he moved his studio to Bold Street where he became most successful, even doing some work for the Royal family in 1869. He employed his Scott relatives to hand colour photographs. In 1872 Caesar patented a process for colouring miniatures and in 1882 he patented galleries or brackets for holding globes or lamp bowls His career was sadly cut short by first personal scandal (a mistress) and then bad health |