Blow-up
When supersized to fill the walls of England’s Glemham Hall, 18th- and 19th-century portraits of Baroness de Rothschild, Madame de Pompadour, and other nobles burst out of their frames and into the present.
1
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Portrait of Baroness James de Rothschild, 1848.
2
Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855.
3
Jean Hippolyte Flandrin’s René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850.
4
Alfred de Dreux’s Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Mosselman and Their Two Daughters, 1848.
5
Christopher Steele’s Polly Patterson, circa 1765.
6
Allan Ramsay’s King George III, 1761–62.
7
James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, 1870.
8
François-Hubert Drouais’s Madame de Pompadour at Her Tambour Frame, 1763–64.
Models: Sophia Bentley Tonge; Andrew MacGregor at FM Models; Oliver Bacon. Set design and costumes by Rhea Thierstein; production by Zoe Wassall at Great Northern Locations; printed by Touch Digital. Photography assistant: Emma Dalzell.
