|Dates: ||1832 - 1909| |Born: ||Italy, Venice| Early travel and
war photographer active from 1853 onwards in the Mediterranean
and the Crimea sometimes in partnership with James Robertson. He
traveled widely and photographed the aftermath of the Indian
Mutiny, in Second Opium War in China, Japan and in the Sudan. Be
careful, as there are two brothers Antonio Beato and Felice
Beato (Grove Art explains the mystery.) NOTE: Place and date of
birth  Recent scholarship had uncovered an application by Beato
for a travel permit in 1858 that included information suggesting
he was born in 1833 or 1834 on the island of Corfu. Earlier
sources had given his birth date as 1825 or ca. 1825, but these
dates may have been confused references to the possible birth
date of his brother, Antonio. However, the death certificate
discovered in 2009 provides the first definitive evidence of
Beato's dates and places of birth and death. (Terry Bennett,
History of Photography in China, 1842–1860, p. 241)  Beato has
long been described a