Portrait of Nicolaas Henneman
Also titled Portret van Nicolaas Henneman
William Henry Fox Talbot (Melbury (Dorset), 1800–1877)
1842
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- papiernegatief
- Dimensions
- height 116 mm x width 162 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Talbot laid the foundation for photography’s golden future with his invention of the negative-positive process. It allowed the photographer to print a photog -raph multiple times. Talbot did not succeed in commercially exploiting his invention; in fact, his photo printing business failed. One of the persons whom he employed was a domestic originally from the Dutch province of Noord-Holland, Nicolaas Henneman. Talbot photographed his assistant in 1842.
