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William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot was an English artist born on February 11, 1800. Henry Fox Talbot contributed to the Early Photography movement and died on September 17, 1877. Get notified when William Henry Fox Talbot's biography is complete:

The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid from the artist's pencil.

Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art

1846

Nicéphore Niépce

The inventor of Photography

1765-1833

Hippolyte Bayard

The second person to invent photography

1801-1887

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

Visionary promoter of photography

1787-1851

1701 1900

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Eugène Delacroix

Bigger is better

Théodore Géricault William Henry Fox Talbot

Daughter of a master brings a new perspective to Edo Japan

Katsushika Ōi

Five kids, a farm, and dizzying allegory

Thomas Cole

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William Henry Fox Talbot

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

The Bertoloni Album

Buckler Fern

Detail of the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

Bust of Patroclus