Lady Elizabeth Eastlake
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.98.1.103
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the poised elegance of **Lady Elizabeth Eastlake** (née Rigby), immortalized in a salted paper print from a paper by the trailblazing Scottish partnership of David Octavius Hill and Adamson, circa 1843–47. This intimate portrait, now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Photographs Department (Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 7), captures a leading intellectual of Victorian Britain—art critic, writer, and of the National Gallery's director. Hill, a painter, and Adamson, a chemist, formed one of photography's first artistic collaborations, producing luminous calotypes that bridged painti...
About the Artist
David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson|Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake · 1802–1870
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer, and arts administrator whose pioneering photography partnership with Robert Adamson from 1843 to 1847 transformed the medium into an art form. Born in Perth and trained in Edinburgh, Hill established himself as a landscape painter and became secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy, a position he held for nearly forty years. His ...