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Artist
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896
Sitter
George Norman Barnard, 23 Dec 1819 - 4 Feb 1902
Date
c. 1865
Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image/Sheet: 8.6 x 5.8 cm (3 3/8 x 2 5/16")
Mount: 9.8 x 5.8 cm (3 7/8 x 2 5/16")
Topic
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Home Furnishings\Drape
Costume\Dress Accessory\Glove
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
Architecture\Column
Photographic format\Carte-de-visite
Interior\Studio\Photography
George Norman Barnard: Male
George Norman Barnard: Visual Arts\Artist\Photographer
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.2007.18
Exhibition Label
George N. Barnard was one of Mathew Brady’s photographers who, like Alexander Gardner, would split from his employer to further his own career. Barnard had opened a daguerreotype studio in Oswego, New York, in 1846 and was a pioneer in the field of documentary photography, capturing dramatic views of a huge mill fire in 1853. He later worked for other photographers, including Brady, who hired him in the late 1850s. While Brady and Gardner concentrated on the eastern theaters, Barnard went south and west, following William T. Sherman’s army—most noticeably on its famous “March to the Sea” in 1864. Barnard traveled back to the South after the war, documenting the cost of war in his 1866 publication Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign.
