The Emperor D. Pedro II, Petrópolis, RJ. Brazil

Joaquim José Pacheco was a photographer, painter and designer. At the end of the 1840s , in Fortaleza, he learns daguerreotype and starts working as a portraitist. Pacheco travels to New York, probably between 1849 and 1851, becomes apprentice to Mathew Brady ( ca. 1823-1896 ) and assistant to daguerreotypists H. E. Insley and Jeremiah Gurney. Back in Brazil , operates in Fortaleza and Sobral , Ceará , and Recife , and around 1855 , he moves to Rio de Janeiro. There he adopts the name Joaquim Insley Pacheco and opens up a studio in which he offers daguerreotypes , photographs on paper , glass and ivory, oil portraits and photo-paintings, becoming one of the most sought after portraitists of the Imperial court. Around 1860 he receives the titles of Photographer of the Imperial Household and Knight of the Order of Christ in Portugal . At the same time, opens the studios Pacheco e Irmão Ambrotypistas da Augusta Caza Imperial in Salvador and São Luís From 1885 to 1897 , his studio in the capital of the Empire shall be called Joaquim Insley Pacheco and Son . Between 1859 and 1873 , is awarded at several General Exhibitions of Fine Arts of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts - Aiba , and shows in Brazil and abroad .