Exhibition Label 1989
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM HENRY HUNT BY HENNEMAN AND MALONE, late 1840s/early 1850s. Nicolaas Henneman, Talbot's protege, had a calotype portrait studio in London from 1847 to 1855. Hunt was a nature painter who foreshadowed the Pre-Raphaelites and influenced Ruskin. The photograph has a faint grid of pencil lines drawn over the head, betraying its use as a sketch, probably for a self-portrait.