Hand-coloured
Coloured dyes, usually applied with a brush, to black-and-white photographs. Colouring a portrait or postcard by hand has been popular since Victorian times. It was common practice to add a touch of gilding on jewellery or a faint flush to the cheeks by hand to daguerreotypes. In a method used in 1842 colours were mixed with alcohol which dried to a transparent tint. Today watercolour, photographic dyes, oil colour, air brushing and bleaching back are techniques which might be used.
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Thomas Augustine Arne
after Francesco Bartolozzi
1770-1782, based on a work of circa 1770
NPG 1130
'A meeting of umbrellas'
by James Gillray, published by William Humphrey
published 25 January 1782
NPG D12299
Jane Gibbs ('Mrs Gibbs the notorious street-walker, and extorter')
by James Gillray
published 23 September 1799
NPG D4967
Bill Richmond ('A striking view of Richmond')
by and published by Robert Dighton
published March 1810
NPG D10726
Isabella Beeton (Mrs Beeton)
by Maull & Polyblank
1857
NPG P3
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
by Camille Silvy
3 July 1861
NPG Ax46705
Unknown man, formerly known as Sir John Fowler, 1st Bt
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
circa 1865
NPG P326
Isabel (née Arundel), Lady Burton
by Unknown photographer
circa 1869
NPG x76470
Anna May Wong
by Dorothy Wilding, hand-coloured by Beatrice Johnson
1929
NPG x44636
Queen Elizabeth II
by Dorothy Wilding, hand-coloured by Beatrice Johnson
26 February 1952
NPG x125105
Claire Bloom
by Dorothy Wilding
1952
NPG x4402
Iona Mary Campbell (née Colquhoun), Duchess of Argyll
by Madame Yevonde
1965
NPG x29847
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