Jas. B.B. Estcourt (1802-1855) General, Taken at the Crimea Shortly Before his Death 1802-1855
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
Thinly albumenized print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 19.5 × 14.7 cm (7 11/16 × 5 13/16 in.); Mount: 27.7 × 21.1 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126343
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...