Artist: Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869)
Nationality: English
Movement:
Media: Photography
Influences:

Biography:
Roger Fenton originally studied law in London before training as a painter there and in Paris. He regularly exhibited his painted and also helped start a drawing school in London that offered evening instruction for working men. His involvement in the arts led to his correspondence with French photographers, Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq. Fenton became a photographer and his career in the medium only lasted twelve years, but covered many subject matters. He was a founding member of the Photographic Society in London and photographed the royal family. In 1852, Fenton made the first photographs of Russia and Kremlin. Then in 1853, he was asked to document the collection of the British Museum. In 1862, Fenton abandoned photography because of the commercialization of the medium and returned to his law practice.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Roger Fenton.

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Fenton, Seated Odalisque, 1858
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Zouave, 2nd Division
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Fenton, Lady Harriet Hamilton as Lady Jane Grey, 1854
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Moel Seabod, from the Lledr Valley
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Isle
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Still Life with Fruit and Decanter
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Egyptian Dancing Girl
J. Paul Getty Museum -
View from Ivans Tower, Kremlin
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Seated Odalisque
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Glastonbury Abbey, Arches of the North Aisle
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Pasha and Bayadère
-
Roger Fenton - Derwentwater c. 1860 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
[Landscape with Clouds, II], 1859 Roger Fenton (British, 1819-1869)Depicted: Great BritainSalted paper print from glass
-
Roger Fenton - Flowers and Fruit 1860 albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society English
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Beehives, Burnham Beeches 1850 Photogravure Image: 18.41 x 22.86 cm (7
-
Roger Fenton - The Cloisters, Tintern Abbey 1854 salted paper print f National Gallery of Art British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 View Up the Hodder, Yorkshire about
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 View on the Llugwy, North Wales
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 View on the Windemere: The Boat-House
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 The Raid Deep, River Ribble, Yorkshire
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 Castleton Bridge, Braemar, Scotland about 1868
Museum of Fine Arts -
Roger Fenton, English, 1816-1869 Printer Francis Frith, English, 1822-1898 Interior: Tintern Abbey Photograph, albumen print
-
Roger Fenton - Terrace and Park at Harewood House 1860 albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society English
-
Roger Fenton - Water Gate, Raglan Castle 1856 photogalvanographic Cincinnati Art Museum British
-
Roger Fenton - Harbour at Balaklava, The Cattle Pier, Crimea 1855 salted paper print f The Royal Photographic Society English
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Reclining Odalisque, 1858 Roger Fenton (British, 1819-1869)Salted paper print from glass negative; 28.5 x 39
-
Roger Fenton - The Miners' Bridge, on the Llugwy, North Wales 1857 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art British
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Christopher Webber Fenton Potteries, Babies in Hooded Cradle, circa 1850
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Christopher Webber Fenton Potteries, Vase blue and white, circa 1850 - 1858
-
Antoine-Louis Barye - Roger and Angelica on the Hippogriff c. 1846 bronze Corcoran Gallery of Art French
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Francis Barlow, Les fables d"Esope et de plusieurs autres excellens mythologistes (Amsterdam: Etienne Roger 1714) with a preface by Roger L"Estrange, 1666
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Herman, VIncent and Gauguin, 1984
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Vivier, Pair of woman"s shoes, 1969
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Vivier, Pair of woman"s shoes, 1958
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Vivier, Pair of woman"s shoes, 1966
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger-Noel-Francois de La Fresnaye, Portrait of a Nurse, 1922
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger Bailey, Paris, Luxemburg Garden, no. 22 from Notebook no. 3, 1923
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacques Roger Simon, Le Ramoneur, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Roger-Noel-Francois de La Fresnaye, The Philatelists, circa 1921

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (10)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Fenton

National Gallery of Art: All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, February 1 through April 24, 2005, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 24 through August 21, 2005. The exhibit...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Aspects of Architecture
Aspects of Architecture will be displayed in four sections: Making the Record, Construction, Looking in Detail and Architecture as Art. The images on display will range from Stonehenge, the Millennium Dome and the construction of the Paris Oper...
J. Paul Getty Center: Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs from the Wilson Family Collection
As photographic methods were refined and materials improved, photographers began to ventur...
Kentucky Art and Craft Museum: A Sense of Style, A Sense of Place: A National Photography Invitational
These processes include photogravures, platinum prints, hand coloring and computer generated prints. Susan Fenton, Kenro Izu, ...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: The Fine Art of Photography
Among the twentieth-century work on show will be photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brant, Roger Fenton, Eve Arnold and Annie Leibovitz. ...
National Gallery of Scotland: Rosslyn: Country Of Painter And Poet

For over 200 years, Rosslyn has attracted countless artists, writers and antiquaries and by the nineteenth century the Castle, Chapel and Glen were placed firmly on the tourist map of Scotland. The chapel was built in 1446 by Sir William St....
Van Gogh Museum: Reflections: Japan and Japonism

Come now, isn’t it almost a true religion which these simple Japanese teach us, who live in nature as though they themselves were flowers. And you cannot study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much gayer and happier, and we must r...
National Portrait Gallery: The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in 19th Century Photography
Highlights of the exhibition include rarely seen surveillance images of suffragettes issued to art galleries to help them identify possible vandals, an intriguing series of portraits of murderers and their victims, fascinating...
Harbourfront Cenrtre: Great Lakes: An Exhibition of Artists, Poets and Writers
Participating artists, poets and writers are Shelley Adler, Kemeny Babineau, Joe Blades, Jane Buyers, Scott Childs, Sharon Cook, Michael Davey, Beverley Daurio, Sheila Gregory, C. Herbert, Penn Kemp, Eugene Knapik, Malca Litovitz, Lorna Mills, Dav...
Dahesh Museum of Art: First Seen: Photographs of the World's Peoples (1840-1880)
From the moment an image could be fixed on paper, photographers and adventurers sought to capture and record both the familiar and exotic aspects of their world. Although landscape, antiquities, architecture and objects of all description came b...

Further Artwork and Information:

Roger Fenton
George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series
Roger Fenton (Getty Museum)
A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: FENTON, Roger
Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Photographer
Roger Fenton: The First War Photographer
Roger Fenton Online
Roger Fenton
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Fenton Crimean War Photographs - About - ...
George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: