Dr. John Henry Middleton, Director of the Art Museum, 1893-1896
1894
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1894
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dr. John Henry Middleton, Director of the Art Museum, 1893-1896 is a 1894 photographic by R. & H. Stiles Photographers, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photo shows Dr. John Henry Middleton. He led the South Kensington Museum from 1892 to 1896. The job was hard. His old opiate habit came back. He died too young in 1896. The photo was made by R. & H. Stiles. They worked in the 1890s. Middleton’s life shows the cost of stress. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The photograph depicts Dr. John Henry Middleton, an archaeologist and art historian who served as director of the South Kensington Museum from 1892 to 1896. Taken in 1894 by photographers R. & H. Stiles, the image captures him during his tenure, a period marked by significant reforms despite his struggles with opiate addiction. Middleton died in 1896 at the museum’s residences from an accidental overdose of morphia. The vintage print was removed from the Directorate staircase in 2005 and replaced with a modern reproduction.
Read the full account in the museum source.
The Stiles siblings ran a portrait studio in Cambridge, England, between gaslight and electric bulb, where students and scholars posed like they were already in a history book.
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