Curated by Dr David Hansen, ‘Dempsey’s People’ brings together 52 portraits by a little-known, English itinerant artist named John Dempsey, reminiscent of the characters in a Charles Dickens novel. Dempsey’s folio presents a significant challenge to conventional 19th century British portraiture, profiling Regency-era and early Victorian-Britain...
Dempsey’s People: a folio of British street portraits 1824-1844
