The Smolnoi Monastery
Roger Fenton
1851-52
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17.1 × 21.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 55 cm (17 1/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
99447
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...