What impact would you envision that the first commercial photography portrait studio would have on portrait painters? Obsolescence and irrelevancy would take grip. Did this intersection of Art and the Photography in the 1830's give birth and legitimacy to the Impressionist movement? If so, then the advent and evolution of Digital Photography is equally important as was the intersection of Photography to Art. Is it not? Ask yourself this.

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What would a classically trained - 1830's - portrait artist see through the digital photography lens? More over, what would a classically trained portrait artist, that developed well honed Impressionist skills see through this lens?

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This seems like a tall order and likely something to be accomplished with lots of research and expense. What if I were to inform you that this exact perspective is embodied in a living breathing keystone intersecting the mastery of a portrait artist, the expressiveness of an impressionist, the eye of a photographer acting as the catalyst through which the raw material, i.e. subject matter is captured. More specifically as it would be seen by eyes of a different century?

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This effort is a formal introduction to just such a keystone and one that need be noted and discussed, the keystone that Granville C. Fairchild represents.