uncertain - probably son of Swedish army officer
uncertain, perhaps self-taught painter; day-long photography lession with assistant of William Henry Fox-Talbot (1853)
1830s - working in Rome as portraitist and copyist
1841 - moves to Lincoln, England
1845 - opens studio in Wolverhampton
1853 - begins photography
1855 - exhibits photographs at Exposition universelle (Paris), wins bronze medal
1857 - exhibits Two Ways of Life at Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition; attracts support of Prince Albert
1858 - exhibits Two Ways of Life at Photographic Society of Scotland - officials hung a curtain to cover the scantily clad exemplars of Vice
1862 - moves to London
1869 - hired by Charles Darwin to provide photographic illustrations for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)
died impoverished
Italy (c. 1830-1840; 1852)
Charles Darwin
Night in Town or Homless and Poor Jo, c. 1860 (Royal Photographic Society). Used by Shaftesbury Society for more than a century to advertise conditions of homeless children
Rejlander made photographic portraits of many famous people, including Charles Darwin, Lewis Carroll, Gustave Doré, and Prince Albert.
Spencer, Stephanie. O.G. Rejlander, Photography as Art. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1985