Prince Albert was an early adopter of portrait photography
UNKNOWN PERSON
Jan Frans Portaels (1818-95)
1860Albumen print | 8.6 x 5.3 cm (image) | RCIN 2913523
Photograph of a full length portrait of Jean François Portaels standing, facing front. He is posed with his right hand in his trouser pocket and his left hand holding a cane. A pair of glasses hang on a ribbon round his neck.
Portaels was a Belgian orientalist painter and director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a very prolific and influential artist in Belgium. There is a pair of paintings of Silican women in the Royal Collection by him (RCIN 406231 and 406232).
Portaels was a Belgian orientalist painter and director of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a very prolific and influential artist in Belgium. There is a pair of paintings of Silican women in the Royal Collection by him (RCIN 406231 and 406232).
Creator(s)
Unknown Person (photographer)
Subject(s)
Jan Frans Portaels (1818-95)annotation: Jean François Portraits. 1860. [beneath work]
8.6 x 5.3 cm (image)
9.6 x 6.3 cm (mount)
22.8 x 17.5 cm (page dimensions)
Jean François Portaels, 1860 [in Photographs. Artists' Portraits. Volume 79]
- Acquired by Prince Albert
Subject(s)
- People
- Artists
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- cartes-de-visite
- photographs
- People
