Artist: Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 - 1886)
Nationality: British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond first started photographing three months after William Henry Fox Talbot unveiled his invention in 1839. The Photographic Society of London was created in 1853 from weekly gatherings of artists and intellectuals that Diamond held at his Wadsworth, London home. He held the position of secretary and was editor of the Society’s Photographic Journal for a decade. From 1848 to 1858, Dr. Diamond used his hobby in his profession, documenting the facial expressions of patients with mental disorders at the Surrey Country Asylum. He used these pictures to support his theory that a patients’ diagnosis could be deduced from their facial features. Diamond was also an honorary photographer for the Society of Antiquaries for which he photographed antiques and wrote weekly articles for the periodical.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Seated Woman with Bird
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Thomas Skynner - Eliza Welch Stone c. 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Hugh Hall 1758 pastel on off-white The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Henry Raeburn - Hugh Hope c. 1810 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Ludmilla Pilat Welch, Falls at Yosemite, 1902
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Thaddeus Welch, Marin County Hills, 1899
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Sir Nathaniel Dance - Portrait of Sir Hugh Palliser c. 1770 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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James Henry Daugherty, This man was Hugh, 1941
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Thomas Phillips - Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberlan 1803 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1775
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Alfred Hugh Fisher, Julius Knight in a Hat, 1933
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James P. Welch, Xerox Two-Sided Shirt - No.18 from the portfolio: Folio Seventy Three, 1973
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Hugh Reinagle, The Battle of Lake Erie, circa 1814
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Hugh Wishart, Punch bowl, circa 1800 - 1801
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Bertha Lum, Diamond Mountains, 1936
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Hugh William Williams, Landscape, 18th - 19th century
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I. Havell, Hugh Llwyd"s Pulpit, 19th century
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Pierre Lombart, To The Right Honorable Hugh of Kelles..., 17th century
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie, Later Twelfth Earl of Eglinton 1780 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Charles Bestland, Hugh Blair, 18th - 19th century
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Alfred Hugh Fisher, Kingsgate, Winchester, 19th - 20th century
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Hugh Thompson, The Chase, proof sheet for end of Book II, 1894
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Sylvester Harding, The Reverend Mr. Hugh Worthington, 18th - 19th century
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Henry Wolf, Hugh John and the Scots Grey, 19th - 20th century
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Richard Anuszkiewicz, Diamond Chroma, 1965
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Diamond leaf goblet, 1875 - 1900
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Diamond leaf goblet, 19th century
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James Torlakson , South City Diamond T, 1976
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Hugh Thompson, The Chase IV, proof sheet with artist"s correction, 1894
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Edging diamond band pattern, 1850
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Alfred Hugh Fisher, Canton: The British Bridge, 19th - 20th century
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Alfred Hugh Fisher, Palace of the Maharajah of Udaipur, India, 19th - 20th century
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Lilian MIller, Diamond Mountain, Korea, 1928
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David Lance Goines, Diamond Foam & Fabric, 1998
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Alfred Hugh Fisher, Head of the Great Tasman Glacier, New Zealand, 19th - 20th century
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Horatio Nelson Poole, Diamond Head, 1920
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Huc Mazelet Luquiens, Diamond Head, Hawaii, 19th - 20th century
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Sandwich Glass Co., Wine glass Diamond point, circa 1855
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G¸nter Brus, The Diamond Cutter, 1982
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Joshua JOhnson - Grace Allison McCurdy (Mrs. Hugh McCurdy) and Her Daughters, Mary Jane and Letitia Grace c. 1806 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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VRT - Vlaams Radio and Television Station: Superstar Neil Diamond is charmed by the Art of a Belgian Action Painter
The selection turned out to be very representative for the works of mr Diamond: from the raw " cherry cherry " performance in 1972 to the sensitive "flight of the Gull" from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, these musical jewels strengthen the efforts ...
Antwerpen: Van Dyck 1999 is More than a Huge Retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts
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Lance Fung Gallery: Jessica Higgins: Poet Walk (The Diamond Forest)
Here the artist's "text" takes the form of a forest of haikus suspended on threads under branches in diamond formations allowing for a non sequential reading of text and space simultaneously, much like the experience of reading space in a forest. ...
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.: Fostering the Collaboration of Art & Science
SARA DIAMOND Artist, curator, writer, artistic director, Media and Visual Arts at The Banff Centre for the Arts and Executive Producer of New Media and Television. Reaction/Diffusion R and D -- The Navigation of Intelligence Samplin...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Pacific Coast Highway by Richard Sigmund
To walk past the painting is to cross almost the entire width of the highway, and hanging the work on the wall creates the sensation of an overhead view. As an image/object, it hovers between painting, photography, and relief sculpture, and betwee...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea: Marine Hugonnier
In Diamond. 18.11.99, 0:00, it is the time of a lighthouse, which in the distance, keeps turning incessantly, back ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond
Beginning with the period of the Revolution (1789) and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, many French artists and sculptors were in the vanguard of political and social change. The public and the press, as well as artists and critics...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Sixth Gem Artists of North America Exhibit
The items in this special exhibition were loaned by 13 members of the Gem Artist of North America (GANA), an organization of about 100 people committed to the advancement of gemstone lapidary art. Showcasing some of the top lapidary artists in t...
Portland Museum of Art: Charles Codman: Retrospective
Most likely a native of Boston, Codman began his career as an apprentice to ornamental painter John Ritto Pennimans. He continued his work in decorative painting after relocating to Portland in 1822, enjoying a brisk trade painting portraits, sign...
San Diego Museum of Art: Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul
Highlights include: the famous emerald and diamond adorned Topkapi dagger; a magnificently crafted imperial throne; rich textiles; jewel-encrusted imperial ceremonial objects; intricately designed wool and silk carpets; finely crafted armor and ...
Para/site Art Space: Opportunity: Administrative Executive Position Available
Para/Site are a local non-profit making art space funded by Hong Kong Art Development Council. They are dedicated to promoting the arts in Hong Kong, through organizing exhibitions, exchanges, art criticism classes, seminars and publishing quart...
Holland Tunnel: Melissa Dadourian: Awakening
Dadourian innocently wanders through images of female figures from 70s Playboy magazines, seen as an adolescent, that serve as inspiration for the paintings. From these magazines surface early memories and dreams about erotic images of the female...
Mississippi Art Pavilion: The Glory of Baroque Dresden
Among the highlights of the exhibition are Johann Vermeer’s “The Procuress” and the 41-carat “Dresden Green Diamond.”  Other artworks include twenty-seven Old Masters paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, van Dyck, Veronese, Tintoretto, and Mant...
Parsons Exhition Center: Drawing in the Present Tense
This show is based on a series of simple observations about the drawing process. The creative process itself often has its origins in drawing. In this view, drawing comes about from a succession of traces, impulses and sensations that form an end...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color
The optical sensation of color is the primary subject of Kenneth Noland’s work. “I wanted color to be the origin of painting,” the artist has stated. A seminal figure of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s, Noland balances strict formalism wit...
Marziart Internationale Galerie: Works by Joseph Gerges, Marjan Kindersley, Geert Vanderplancke, Patrick Gysemberg and Irene Balter
The Galerie is a meeting place for artists, to establish international contacts and  connections to the art-scene of Hamburg. Marion Zimmermann, Owner/Director, is also an artist with links to galleries and art groups. In accordance with a claim o...
Dagmar de Pooter Gallery: Ellen Augustynen: Fill Me #2
Fill Me #2 is probably this Belgian artist‚s most idiosyncratic, and at the same time, most personal work to date. To us these linguistic signifiers have no signifieds, as they precariously float in mid-air, only suggesting their respective suppor...
Merchandise Mart: Chicago International Antiques & Fine Art Fair
In addition to the staples of furniture, jewelry, paintings, silver and ceramics, the Chicago Fair is rich in 20th century design, clocks, fine prints and rare books. ...
NSA Gallery: Three Short Exhibitons to be Displayed
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One continent, many facets
The fourth De Beers Shining Lights Awards Collection Last year De Beers commenced the fourth De Beers Shining Light Awards, and entrants were asked to draw inspiration from the rich symboli...
South London Gallery: Walter Crane (1845-1915): Wallpaper, Costumes and Book Design Alongside The Triumph of Labour
Founded by philanthropist William Rossiter, the South London Gallery opened on its present site in 1891. Rossiter was supported by a group of prominent contemporary artists, including John Ruskin and Frederic, Lord Leighton. The aim of the foundin...
Anonymous Was A Woman: Anonymous Was a Woman Awards 10 Women Artists with $25,000 Grants
The name of the grant program, Anonymous Was A Woman, refers to a line in Virginia Wolf’s A Room of One’s Own. As the name implies, the nominators and those associated with the program are un-named, and artists are unaware that they are being cons...
Edinburgh Printmakers: Gavin Turk: Faces Portfolio
In his “Faces” portfolio, Gavin Turk cleverly plays with Warhol’s legacy. In 1980, for example, Warhol produced prints based on his own photograph of Joseph Beuys, then the only living artist to match his celebrity status. By turning Beuys into ...
Bonnefanten Museum: Art from the Cape: Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces from the Cape Town Michaelis Collection
A restorer from the Limburg Conservation Institute Maastricht will be working on two paintings during the exhibition. This process will be accessibly presented to the visitors. The Michaelis Collection was put together by the diamond trader...
Autry Museum of Western Heritage: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Exhibits include an original 1867 Deadwood Stagecoach, bought by Buffalo Bill for $1,800 in 1911 and used during a scene from the show The Attack on the Deadwood Stage, in which audience members participated as cowboys. Annie Oakley's gold-plate...
Peabody Essex Museum: Mystical Tibetan Art

The Peabody Essex Museum offers a rare glimpse into Tibet, its artistic achievements, and its rich cultural heritage with The Mystical Arts of Tibet, an exhibition of art, religious objects, and photography spanning more than 500 years. The exhibi...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Daria Martin: 16mm Films
Daria Martin's film-trilogy seduces and irritates through its exaggerated theatrical artifice as well as through its blunt exposure and its concurrent hermetic hiding of emotions. In «In the Palace» performers and objects are united in an indefina...
Northern Westchester Center for the Arts: Jerry Pinkney – Illustrator
According to Cheatham Mosley, “After years of knowing the Pinkney family, it gives me great pleasure to have Jerry’s work exhibited at the NWCA gallery. I am looking forward to this event and sharing his extraordinary talent with our community. Gl...
Worcester Art Museum: Chuck Close
Organized by Susan Stoops, curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum, Chuck Close features four major canvases from the past decade, including imag...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Doug Aitken: Metallic Sleep
At the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999, the Jury awarded Aitken the Premio Internazionale for his installation Electric Earth, which will be a central feature of the Wolfsburg showing. His work has recently been seen in collective and individual exhi...
Corcoran Museum of Art: Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul
Organized by the Palace Arts Foundation, a nonprofit institution dedicated to fostering international cultural exchange, the exhibition will open at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washingt...

Further Artwork and Information:

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond (Getty Museum)
Dr. Hugh Diamond - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
Grove Art Online
Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond Online
Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 - 1886) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: DIAMOND, Dr Hugh Welch
Talbots Correspondence:Search The Letters
Find in a Library: The Face of madness : Hugh W. Diamond and the origin of psychiatric photography
Seated Woman with Bird (Getty Museum)
Talbot Correspondence Project: WHFT to DIAMOND Hugh Welch, 10 Nov 1863 [06559]

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