Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age

This spring, Tate Britain will uncover the dynamic dialogue between British painters and photographers; from the birth of the modern medium to the blossoming of art photography.

Spanning 75 years, the exhibition will bring together nearly 200 works - many for the first time - to reveal their mutual influences. The show will discover how painters and photographers redefined notions of beauty and art itself, from the first explorations of movement and illumination by David Octavius Hill (1802-70) and Robert Adamson (1821-48) to artful turn-of-the-century compositions.

Highlights of Painting with Light will include John Everett Millais's (1829-96) nostalgic The Woodman’s Daughter, John Brett’s (1831-1902) awe-inspiring Glacier Rosenlaui, PH Emerson's (1856-1936) and TF Goodall’s (c. 1856-1944) images of rural river life that allied photography to Impressionist painting, and smoky Thames nocturnes in both media by JAM Whistler (1834-1903) and Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966).