John Dillwyn Llewelyn was a pioneer photographer born in Llangyfelach, Swansea on the 12th January 1810.

In January 1839, announcements of photographic processes were made by William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, John Llewelyn, encouraged by Henry Talbot, began to experiment himself.

He tried all the processes available.

His earliest daguerreotype is dated 1840.

Some thousand calotype and wet collodion negatives still exist together with albums in private and public collections and retained by the family.

When the Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853, John Dillwyn Llewelyn was one of those who attended the foundation meeting at the Society of Arts in London, and was, for some years, a founder Council member.

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