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The Blorbos, from my Arctic History. James Fitzjames and Francis Crozier based on the daguerreotypes.

It's really annoying to try and draw someone if you only have the one picture of them, but I've been meaning to try for a while

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2023-02-04

I won't be able to post new work for a few months, so here are some of my older faves <3 Meet Captains Fitzjames and Crozier from the , painted after their 1845 daguerreotypes.

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2019-04-12

in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady).

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2018-02-14