Charles Thurston Thompson

Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-1868) was an early British photographer.

Venetian mirror circa 1700, by Charles Thurston Thompson.

Thompson is credited with having taken the first ever photograph of a photographic exhibition, in his capacity as the official photographer of the South Kensington Museum, now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1] In 1858 he photographed the Raphael Cartoons of the Royal Collection.[2]

His work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum,[1][3] the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[4] the Getty Museum,[5] the National Gallery of Art, Washington[6] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7]

  • Interior view of the Convent of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, Portugal, by Charles Thurston Thompson
  • 1865 view of the case and cart used to transport the Raphael Cartoons from Hampton Court to South Kensington Museum. Photographed by Charles Thurston Thompson.

References
  1. "1858 Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London". www.vam.ac.uk. 12 April 2011.
  2. "V&A ยท The story of the Raphael Cartoons". Victoria and Albert Museum.
  3. Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Societe Francaise de Photographie at the South Kensington Museum | Thompson, Charles Thurston | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
  4. "Charles Thurston Thompson | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  5. "The West Front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  6. "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  7. "Charles Thurston Thompson: French Machinery". www.metmuseum.org.


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