Daniel Maclise (1806-1870)

About the Artwork

Depicting artists alongside one of their creations, a format borrowed from painting, identifies their occupation and advertises their abilities. Price, a noted painter, had a short but significant photography career between 1854 and 1862. Around 1858, he produced a portfolio of photographs of a dozen eminent British painters, including Irish historical painter Daniel Maclise. Emphasizing their professional status, he posed them in fine clothing amid the tools of their trade, including props and furniture. Johnston, a well-regarded painter in Cincinnati and later Baltimore, was also a camera operator for the Cincinnati branch of Whitehurst Studio. His far sparer self-portrait came from an album that contained his own and others’ photographs and clippings, including the Whitehurst photograph of Senator Pugh on the facing wall

Inscriptions

Written in black ink on recto: "Danl. Maclise"; in pencil: "a 5300"; "0-"; in pencil on verso: "(i40)"; "15"

Exhibition history

Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-November 27, 1994). Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). Artists Photographing Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2001-February 27, 2002). Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017).

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: William Lake Price (British, 1810–1896)
Date: 1857
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Image: 28.1 x 24.5 cm (11 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: James Parmelee Fund
Accession no.: 1994.19

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