22 AUGUST 1846, Page 20

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE.

IN speaking of Messrs. Beard and Claudet as " rival patentees," we have, it seems, made use of a phrase that is liable to mislead; the more so that such is the general impression. Mr. Beard has been at some pains to ex- plain, that he and M. Claudet both use the process of Daguerre under the same patent, but that to Mr. Beard only belongs the power of granting licences to others to use it in this country; he having bought the patent entire, subject only to M. Clandet exercising the privilege of using it to a limited extent.

Mr. Beard also observes that he too can take " non-inverted " portraits when desired.