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Roberto Rive

Roberto Rive

Argentinian, 1817–1868

Roberto Rive was a Prussian-born photographer who opened his studio in Naples around the 1850s. After several years in Italy, he changed his name to Roberto Rive and conducted systematic photographic campaigns throughout the country. His main collections include photographs of Pompeii and Rome from the 1860s and 1870s. After his death in 1868, his brother Julius Otto took over the studio until 1888.

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