| Number | AMHAM: PHO.9870 |
|---|---|
| Date | (2024) |
| About this object | This other-worldly portrait depicts an elderly Anthony Duparc with arms crossed behind his back, admiring flowers within the medicine garden of Amersham Museum and was taken in the summer of 2024. This image, and many others, were captured by the Museum’s Young Curators using vintage cameras through a special project as part of the Understanding British Portraits Network Research Fellowship for 2023-24. This fellowship allowed the Museum’s Collection Manager Emma Treleaven to lead research into the Duparc Collection of photographs acquired in 2022. Culminating in a celebratory ‘portrait party’, with Anthony Duparc as the guest of honour, this project not only unlocked many of the mysteries of the family’s history and the photographic collection but also brought the story of the Duparc Family full circle. A vintage camera, not dissimilar to the ones that Ursula Duparc would have used throughout the 20th century, captured an impression of the now-aged Anthony Duparc in the 21st century. Far from the boy from earlier photographs, he is much older, one of the last surviving close descendants of Isaac and Ursula, captured alone. |
| Made By | Young Curators |
| Made In | Amersham |
| Physical Description | Digital Copy of processed 35mm film. |
| Find Out More | Find Out More: To learn more about Amersham Museum’s Understanding British Portraits Network Research Fellowship for 2023-24 project: New Perspectives through Photographic Portraits - Amersham Museum |