Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B.
Roger Fenton
1855
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.9 x 17.6 cm (8 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.) mount: 60 x 44.4 cm (23 5/8 x 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr.
Accession Number
2005.115.1
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...