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Portrait of Nicolaas Henneman
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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 photograph 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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of Nicolaas Henneman. 1842. William Henry Fox Talbot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
