Hampton Court on Thames
Roger Fenton
1857
Medium
photo-galvanograph
Dimensions
image: 18.2 × 23.3 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.) sheet: 38.5 × 55.9 cm (15 3/16 × 22 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Patrick Montgomery
Accession Number
2023.151.1
About the Artist
Roger Fenton · 1819–1819
Roger Fenton (1819–1869), born into a prosperous Lancashire merchant family as the son of banker and MP John Fenton, initially pursued a scholarly path, earning a first-class BA from the University of London in 1840 before studying law at University College London. He abandoned these pursuits for art, training as a painter under the history painter Charles Lucy in London by 1847—the two became clo...