[Royal Children in Tableau of the Seasons]
Roger Fenton
1854
![[Royal Children in Tableau of the Seasons] by Roger Fenton](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/royal-children-in-tableau-of-the-seasons-290476.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
15.5 x 16 cm (6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2009
Accession Number
2009.460.8
Tags
PortraitsChildren
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...