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.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855.
Jean Hippolyte Flandrin’s René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850.
Alfred de Dreux’s Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Mosselman and Their Two Daughters, 1848.
Christopher Steele’s Polly Patterson, circa 1765.
Allan Ramsay’s King George III, 1761–62.
James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, 1870.
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.