
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
British Photographer · 1813–1875
64 works across 2 collections 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
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Ah! Pussey
Getty Museum · about 1865
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A Portrait
Getty Museum · about 1855
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Ariadne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1857
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[Augustus Fooley]
Getty Museum · negative about 1860; print 1872
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[Augustus Fooley]
Getty Museum · negative about 1860; print 1872
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[Child holding crying baby]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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[Contempt]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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[Crying child]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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[Crying child]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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[Detail from "Young Girl Standing with Hand to Mouth"]
Getty Museum · negative 1862; print 1872
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[Disdain]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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[Disgust]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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Eh!
Getty Museum · negative about 1854–1855; print about 1865
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[Helplessness]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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His Country's Hope
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1855
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[Indignation]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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[Indignation]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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It Won't Rain To-day
Getty Museum · about 1865
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Kept In
Getty Museum · about 1865
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1863
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Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist
Getty Museum · about 1860
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Madonna (Mary Rejlander?)
Getty Museum · about 1860
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Mary Constable
Getty Museum · 1866
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Mary Constable and Her Brother
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1866
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Mental Distress
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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Miss Constable, also known as Family Likeness
Getty Museum · 1866
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Nursey and Baby, Bus Bus, Baby and Nursey, Hush Hush!
Getty Museum · about 1869
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Poor Joe
Getty Museum · negative about 1860; print later
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[Portrait of a man]
Getty Museum · about 1869–1875
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[Portrait of an Elderly Man in Hat Holding Some Tools]
Getty Museum · about 1863–1864
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[Portrait of a Seated Woman with Curly Hair in Profile]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of a Woman in Profile]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of a Woman in Profile with One Hand to Her Chin]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of a Young Boy]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of a Young Girl]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of A Young Girl]
Getty Museum · about 1870
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[Portrait of a Young Girl Reading]
Getty Museum · about 1860
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[Portrait of Lionel Tennyson]
Getty Museum · about 1862–1864
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[Portrait of Rejlander's Dog]
Getty Museum · 1853
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[Sad boy]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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[Seated Elderly Man Holding a Glass]
Getty Museum · about 1862
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[Seated Young Girl With an Unknown Hand Touching the Side of Her Face]
Getty Museum · about 1865
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[Seated Young Woman with Flowers in Braided Hair Looking Up to the Ceiling]
Getty Museum · about 1865
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[Seated Young Woman With Hair in Curls]
Getty Museum · about 1865
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Self-Portrait as Giuseppe Garibaldi
Getty Museum · about 1864
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Shrugging the Shoulders
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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[Smiling girl]
Getty Museum · negative before 1872; print 1872
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Sneering
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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Study of a Head
Getty Museum · March 22, 1857
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Study of the Head of John the Baptist in a Charger
Getty Museum · negative about 1855; print later
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[Surprised Man]
Getty Museum · negative 1871–1872; print 1872
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The Canal Boys
Getty Museum · 1855
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The Infant Photography Giving the Painter an Additional Brush
Getty Museum · about 1856
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The Little Artist
Getty Museum · about 1865
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The Organ Grinder.
Getty Museum · about 1862–1868
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The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Catching
Getty Museum · 1857
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The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Caught
Getty Museum · 1857
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The Participles or Grammar for Little Boys: Caught
Getty Museum · 1857
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The Scholar's Mate
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1855
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The Scripture Reader
Getty Museum · about 1865
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