Wells Cathedral
Roger Fenton
c. 1857
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 24.77 × 27.94 cm (9 3/4 × 11 in.) sheet: 32.39 × 34.29 cm (12 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2017.101.1
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...