Grenville Kane
Mathew B. Brady
late 1850s
Medium
Ambrotype
Dimensions
visible: 12.2 x 8.9 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.48
Tags
ChildrenPortraitsChairs
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady · 1823–1896
Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823–1896) was an American photographer who became the most famous photographer of the Civil War era and one of the founding figures of American photographic history. Born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, he learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel F.B. Morse and William Page and opened his first portrait studio in New York City in 1844. Brady quick...