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National Portrait Gallery, London
Today, we are all extremely familiar with what our Royal Family looks like, thanks to advances in photography and the advent of the internet and television, yet 500 years ago, the public only knew what their King (or Queen) looked like thanks to royal portraiture.
Employing court artists to capture their likeness, most monarchs utilised coded symbolism to get important messages about who they were across: the future King James II was painted as the Roman God of War, Mars, to showcase his strength, while Queen Anne was dressed up to look like her famous predecessor, Queen Elizabeth I.
William Fox Talbot collection sells for nearly £1.5 million at auction, a new record
April 23, 2021
A trove of nearly 200 early photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot quadrupled its pre-auction estimate to achieve $1,956,000 (£1,411,557) this week, a new auction record for the seminal British photography pioneer. Gifted by the photographer to his sister and remaining in the family since, the collection made its auction debut as a highlight of Sothebyâs 50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sothebyâs Photographs sale.
Horatia playing AmeÌlina’s harp (1843) – Fox Talbot gifted the collection to her back in the day
The sale set a new artist record for Talbot, and a new benchmark for a work of 19th century photography at auction.
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