Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
GUSTAV WILLIAM HENRY MULLINS (1854-1921)
'Dom Fernando, King Regent'; Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816-85)
1889 copy after an original of 1854Carbon print | 15.2 x 10.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2906594
Photograph of a half length portrait of Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816-85), then King Regent. Ferdinand II is seated, facing left. He poses with his right arm over the back of a chair. He is wrapped in a shawl and wears a hat.
Creator(s)
Gustav William Henry Mullins (1854-1921) (photographer)
Subject(s)
Ferdinand II, King of Portugal (1816-85)annotation: Reproduced & Printed in Carbon by Mullins 1889 [mount, lower left and lower right]
annotation: Dom Fernando, King Regent/ of Portugal 1854 [beneath photograph]
15.2 x 10.9 cm (image)
28.2 x 22.9 cm (page dimensions)
Dom Fernando, King Regent of Portugal, 1854 [Photographic Portraits. Vol 1/59 (1853-1857)]
- Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- albums
- photograph albums
- visual works
