https://artblart.com/2026/05/22/exhibition-from-shadow-to-substance-grand-scale-portraits-during-photographys-formative-years-at-the-national-portrait-gallery-washington/Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archiveen2026-05-22T02:15:36+00:00Exhibition: ‘From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Washingtonphotography, Art Blart, history, daguerreotype, art, National Portrait Gallery Washington, Mathew B. Brady, Albert Sands Southworth, Josiah Johnson Hawes, American Daguerreotypes, early American photography, American portrait photography, Southworth & Hawes, Southworth & Hawes Jonas Chickering, Jonas Chickering, Southworth & Hawes Gaetano Bedini, Gaetano Bedini, American daguerreotypists, early American portrait photography, From Shadow to Substance, From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography's Formative Years, Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography's Formative Years, John C. Calhoun, Whole-plate daguerreotype, John Caldwell Calhoun, Francis D'Avignon, Secure the shadow ere the substance fade, high-end daguerreotype, American landscape artist John Frederick Kensett, papal nuncio Gaetano Bedini, Issac P. Davis 1771-1855 and William Hickling Prescott 1796-1859, Southworth & Hawes Issac P. Davis 1771-1855 and William Hickling Prescott 1796-1859, Isaac P. Davis, William Hickling Prescott, American daguerreotype, Southworth & Hawes Lemuel Shaw, Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, father of American piano making, Mathew B. Brady John Frederick Kensett, John Frederick Kensett, Whole-plate ambrotype, Daniel Webster, Southworth & Hawes Daniel Webster, Whole plate copy daguerreotype, price for a Southworth & Hawes whole-plate daguerreotype, Southworth & Hawes' Daguerreotype Rooms, Brady's Daguerreotypes, Illustrated American Biography, Great Exhibition 1851, 19th-century