Charles Clifford

Charles Clifford (1819, 1863) was a British-born photographer who became one of the most important documentarians of 19th-century Spain, serving as official photographer to Queen Isabella II. Working primarily in wet collodion and calotype processes, he produced sweeping architectural studies, landscapes, and royal portraits that captured the grandeur of Spanish monuments and the country's modernization under the Bourbon monarchy. His large-format albumen prints are celebrated for their technical mastery and compositional elegance, placing him among the foremost travel photographers of the Victorian era.