The Beautiful and the Damned
Reginald Southey, medical student
by Lewis Carroll, 1858/9
© Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Science and Society Picture Library
Past exhibition archive
6 June - 7 October
Studio Gallery
Admission Free
Supported by Metro Imaging
This exhibition is a significant addition to an important new area of photographic history. It looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century. International loans together with key images from the National Portrait Gallery, explore the social significance of the face in areas as diverse as crime, science and celebrity.
A book by Peter Hamilton and Roger Hargreaves accompanies the exhibition priced £15.95 paperback.
Wilkie Collins
by Cundall, Downes & Co
1860-1865
NPG Ax16234
Possibly Victor Julien
by Mayer Brothers
circa 1861
NPG Ax47095
Prunella Clough
by Lord Snowdon
circa 1959
NPG P797(10)
Sir Alfred Gilbert
by Ralph Winwood Robinson, published by C. Whittingham & Co
circa 1889, published 1892
NPG x7365
Queen Victoria
by Charles Clifford, published by Cundall, Downes & Co
14 November 1861
NPG x36265
Mrs Williamson
by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson
1843-1848
NPG x18777
Related portraits
- Prunella Clough (NPG P797(10))
- Mrs Williamson (NPG x18777)
- Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake (NPG x27670)
- John Henning (NPG x18788)
- Sir John McNeill (NPG x18762)
- David Livingstone (NPG x7279)
- William Walker (NPG Ax47088)
- William Hatley (NPG Ax47091)
- Mr Shaw (NPG Ax47097)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x36266)
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Queen Victoria (NPG x26104)
- Queen Victoria; Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NPG x26103)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x36262)
- Unknown athlete (NPG Ax47093)
- Wilkie Collins (NPG Ax16234)
- Michael Faraday (NPG Ax16267)
- Mr Jones (NPG Ax47087)
- Possibly Victor Julien (NPG Ax47095)
- Queen Victoria; Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (NPG x26101)
- Charles Dickens (NPG Ax16251)
- Thomas Carlyle (NPG Ax5086)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x13972)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x36265)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x13974)
- Queen Victoria (NPG x36264)
- Sir George Scharf (NPG Ax29987)
- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (NPG Ax5061)
- William Ewart Gladstone (NPG x12503)
- Sir Alfred Gilbert (NPG x7365)
- Sarah Bernhardt as Théodora in Sardou's play 'Théodora' (NPG x5682)
- The Strachey family (NPG x13122)
- Mr Timms (NPG x35176)
- Lillie Langtry (NPG x88809)
- Harry P. Marks (NPG x44869)
- Marjorie Barabel Ruth Philips (née McIver) (NPG x44865)
- The Night Fire Brigade (NPG x88320)
- Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer) (NPG x45561)
- Miriam Pratt (NPG x45566)
- Miss Johansen (NPG x45563)
- Clara Elizabeth Giveen (NPG x45564)
- Mary Raleigh Richardson (NPG x45559)
- 'Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes' (NPG x132847)
- Lilian Lenton (NPG x45560)
- Lillian Forrester (née Williamson) (NPG x45562)
- Jennie Baines (NPG x45565)
Related sitters
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Jennie Baines
- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
- Sarah Henriette Rosine Bernhardt
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey)
- Thomas Carlyle
- (Cara) Prunella Clough-Taylor
- (William) Wilkie Collins
- Charles Dickens
- Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake
- Michael Faraday
- Lillian Forrester (née Williamson)
- Sir Alfred Gilbert
- Clara Elizabeth Giveen
- William Ewart Gladstone
- William Hatley
- John Henning
- Miss Johansen
- Mr Jones
- Emilie Charlotte ('Lillie') Langtry (née Le Breton)
- Lilian Lenton
- David Livingstone
- Sir John McNeill
- Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer)
- Harry P. Marks
- Marjorie Barabel Ruth Philips (née McIver)
- Miriam Pratt
- Elinor Rendel (née Strachey)
- Mary Raleigh Richardson
- Sir George Scharf
- Mr Shaw
- James Beaumont Strachey
- Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey
- (Giles) Lytton Strachey
- Marjorie Strachey
- Oliver Strachey
- (Joan) Pernel Strachey
- Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey
- Ralph Strachey
- Sir Richard Strachey
- Richard John Strachey
- Mr Timms
- Queen Victoria
- William Walker
- Mrs Williamson
Related artists
- Robert Adamson
- Robert Jefferson Bingham
- Graystone Bird
- Cassell & Company, Ltd
- Charles Clifford
- Criminal Record Office
- Cundall, Downes & Co
- William Currey
- W. & D. Downey
- Ghémar Frères
- David Octavius Hill
- Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd)
- Maull & Polyblank
- John Jabez Edwin Mayall
- Mayall
- Mayer Brothers
- E. Moses & Son
- Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
- George Newbold
- Ralph Winwood Robinson
- Antony Charles Robert Armstrong Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
- Unknown engraver
- Unknown photographer
- John Watkins
- John & Charles Watkins
- C. Whittingham & Co