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August 19, 2017

People in the Earliest Photography: 39 Rare Portrait Pictures Taken From the 1840s

After the introduction of photography in the 1840s the early Victorians soon recognized the medium’s potential for portraiture. At first only the rich could afford high prices at fashionable city photographic studios. Alongside the professionals, gentleman amateurs worked to master photography’s complicated chemistry and optics. It was the children or other relatives of these first photographers who sat for their early experimental portraits. Below is a collection of 39 rare portrait photos of people taken in the 1840s.

Charlotte Lockhart, later Mrs Hope, grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, circa 1846

Couple in winter clothes, ca. 1840s

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man holding a book with another man moving into frame behind him, ca. 1840s

Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1842

Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, taken several months before his death, 1849

Fisher Lassie and her child by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848

Fishwife from Newhaven by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1847

Girl wearing a white chemisette, holding long watch on chain, 1845

Handsome gentleman in the late 1840s

James Fillans with his two daughters by Hill and Adamson, 1845

Jane Webster (née Binny); Justine Gallie (née Monro); Mrs Marrable (née Binny) by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848

Lady Eastlake by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848

Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways (1773-1846), ca. early 1840s

Lady Georgina Elizabeth Wharncliffe (née Ryder), John Stuart-Wortley by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1846

Matilda Smith (née Rigby) by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848

Miss Elizabeth (Betsy) Etty, daughter of John Etty, by Hill and Adamson, 1844

Miss Kemp by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848

Miss Munro by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848

Mother and child in the late 1840s

Mrs. Jameson by Hill and Adamson, 1843-47

Mrs. Rishton (née McCandlish) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848
Mrs. Shanker by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1847

Portrait of a beautiful bride, ca. 1840s

Portrait of a gentleman, 1845

Portrait of a lady, possibly a domestic servant, in a striped dress, late 1840s

Portrait of a lovely couple in the early 1840s

Portrait of a woman, 1844

Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake (17 November 1809 – 2 October 1893) in the early 1840s

Portrait of Jane Sophia Barker (née Harden) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1844

Portrait of Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper in 1940

Portrait of Mrs. Isabella Morrison Bell by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848

Portrait of old woman in 1848

Portrait of two young women by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner, 1849

Sophia Finlay by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848

Styling it up in 1842

Woman holding a Daguerreotype portrait, ca. late 1840s

Woman with two daughters, circa 1940s

Young lady in dress, ca. 1940s

Young woman in 'bead print' dress, circa 1845



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