Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield
Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
by David Wilkie Wynfield
albumen print, 1860s
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Past exhibition archive
28 January - 14 May 2000
Photography Gallery
Admission Free
In the 1860s the painter David Wilkie Wynfield produced a series of strikingly original photographic portraits of his artist contemporaries. He used a narrow depth-of-field, dramatic close-ups and historical costume to model his sitters in the image of the courtiers and noblemen painted by the Old Masters. Wynfield was one of the first photographers to use 'soft-focus' as a means to create artistic photography and his works inspired Julia Margaret Cameron.
A fully illustrated book by Juliet Hacking, curator of the exhibition, is available from the Gallery shop at the end of January, published by Prestel, price £19.95.
Related portraits
- Richard Ansdell (NPG P70)
- Thomas Faed (NPG P73)
- Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (NPG P79)
- Charles Samuel Keene (NPG P76)
- John Phillip (NPG P80)
- Henry Wyndham Phillips (NPG P81)
- David Wilkie Wynfield (NPG P87)
- Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton (NPG P93)
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon (NPG P72)
- John Evan Hodgson (NPG P74)
- (Myles) Birket Foster (NPG P99)
- Frederick Richard Pickersgill (NPG P82)
- George Frederic Watts (NPG P86)
- Henry Stacy Marks (NPG P94)
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep (NPG P95)
- Thomas Oldham Barlow (NPG P90)
- William Gale (NPG P100)
- William Holman Hunt (NPG P75)
- Edward Armitage (NPG P225)
- George Price Boyce (NPG Ax131851)
Related sitters
- Richard Ansdell
- Edward Armitage
- Thomas Oldham Barlow
- George Price Boyce
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon
- Thomas Faed
- (Myles) Birket Foster
- Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
- William Gale
- John Evan Hodgson
- William Holman Hunt
- Charles Samuel Keene
- Henry Stacy Marks
- Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
- John Phillip
- Henry Wyndham Phillips
- Frederick Richard Pickersgill
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep
- George Frederic Watts
- David Wilkie Wynfield