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A prolific portrait painter, completing over 700 portraits, Phillips displayed his talent soon after arriving in London in 1790 by exhibiting his first work at the Royal Academy two years later.

A print made using albumen paper, popular for photographic printing between 1850 and 1900. Thin paper was coated with a layer of egg-white (albumen) containing salt and sensitized with a silver ...

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was the fashion plate that showed women what fashionable society was wearing at different times of the day and for specific occasions, and how to ...