Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll is best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, books which have delighted children and adults from their publication in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day. However, he was also an early and prolific photographer who excelled in the medium and is one of the greatest photographers of children in history. He made many portraits of the children of his friends, including the young Alice Liddell who was the inspiration for the protagonist of Carroll's popular stories. Less-well-known are his beautiful portraits of adults, his fascinating still lifes and his evocative English landscapes. His sitters included eminent members of Victorian society including Pre-Raphaelite artists such as John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and other famous nineteenth-century cultural figures including Shakespearean actress Dame Ellen Terry and the poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson.