Oscar Gustave Rejlander
British Photographer · 1813–1875
33 works on LinkedCulture
Seeing the fold of a coat sleeve in a photographic portrait prompted Oscar Gustave Rejlander to give up painting for photography. In 1853 Rejlander, eager to learn the wet-collodion process of photography in just one day, paid a hurried visit to a photographer's studio in London. As implied in the name, the wet-plate glass negative had to be used while the collodion was still damp, and the process
Works
Ah! Pussey
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[Crying child]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b2397507-84df-4434-810c-ec1a82847814/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Crying child]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
Eh!
Getty Museum · negative about 1854–1855; print about 1865
It Won't Rain To-day
Getty Museum · about 1865
Kept In
Getty Museum · about 1865
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist
Getty Museum · about 1860
Mary Constable
Getty Museum · 1866
Miss Constable, also known as Family Likeness
Getty Museum · 1866
Nursey and Baby, Bus Bus, Baby and Nursey, Hush Hush!
Getty Museum · about 1869
Poor Joe
Getty Museum · negative about 1860; print later
![[Portrait of a man]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/3b6f9805-36c1-4afa-b733-4de803afdf1b/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of a man]
Getty Museum · about 1869–1875
![[Portrait of a Young Boy]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/56a8dcb8-1d8b-491e-bb95-b0e37bec91f1/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of a Young Boy]
Getty Museum · about 1860
![[Portrait of A Young Girl]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/9240d521-c646-430c-bad3-f149266d2601/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of A Young Girl]
Getty Museum · about 1870
![[Portrait of Lionel Tennyson]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b2f63a4f-adf2-4f3b-b9c6-78927f233af3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of Lionel Tennyson]
Getty Museum · about 1862–1864
![[Portrait of Rejlander's Dog]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8630d7f2-9eee-4746-9247-98acaad3aa04/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Portrait of Rejlander's Dog]
Getty Museum · 1853
![[Seated Elderly Man Holding a Glass]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/ab5476d8-e5e3-43df-a4d3-219a116a5a74/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Seated Elderly Man Holding a Glass]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Seated Young Girl With an Unknown Hand Touching the Side of Her Face]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/80bba4f3-d58a-4834-aea6-0321111cea2e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Seated Young Girl With an Unknown Hand Touching the Side of Her Face]
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[Seated Young Woman with Flowers in Braided Hair Looking Up to the Ceiling]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/7d36e55b-68d5-4ccb-851c-15119634096e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Seated Young Woman with Flowers in Braided Hair Looking Up to the Ceiling]
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[Seated Young Woman With Hair in Curls]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1436d322-d5d1-4898-ad1a-01a6de71ff0f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Seated Young Woman With Hair in Curls]
Getty Museum · about 1865
Self-Portrait as Giuseppe Garibaldi
Getty Museum · about 1864
Study of a Head
Getty Museum · March 22, 1857
![[Surprised Man]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/84369528-0f56-4a61-b2eb-ce3160f2cf84/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Surprised Man]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
The Canal Boys
Getty Museum · 1855
The Infant Photography Giving the Painter an Additional Brush
Getty Museum · about 1856
The Little Artist
Getty Museum · about 1865
The Organ Grinder.
Getty Museum · about 1862–1868
The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Catching
Getty Museum · 1857
The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Caught
Getty Museum · 1857
The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Caught
Getty Museum · 1857
The Scripture Reader
Getty Museum · about 1865
![[Twinkle, Twinkle]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/18a908f8-61b8-4ca3-8aad-a0caef9e143c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Twinkle, Twinkle]
Getty Museum · about 1862
![[Young Woman in a White Cap]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/218f448d-5048-4916-a58b-72d418c53c5d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Young Woman in a White Cap]
Getty Museum · about 1866
![[Young Woman in Native Costume]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/4fe64f23-867f-4791-b022-8bbd28c43b73/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Young Woman in Native Costume]
Getty Museum · about 1865