Josiah Johnson Hawes, Albert Francis Hawes and Charles Ebenezer Hawes

A self-taught artist, Josiah Johnson Hawes earned his living as an itinerant painter of portrait miniatures before devoting himself to daguerreotypy in 1841. Two years later, he became a full partner with Albert Sands Southworth in the preeminent Boston daguerreian studio known thereafter as Southworth & Hawes.