The Fruit Sellers. Artist: Possibly by William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800-1877 Lacock); Possibly by Calvert Richard Jones (British, Swansea, Wales 1802-1877 Bath, England). Dimensions: 17.1 x 21.1 cm (6 3/4 x 8 5/16 in. ). Date: ca. 1845.Talbot was not only a man of learning and a Fellow of the Royal Society, he was also a member of Great Britain's landed gentry. Following the death of his father, six-month-old Henry Talbot was named the sole heir to the sprawling and somewhat ruinous estate known as Lacock Abbey. Established in 1232, the abbey was converted into a private residence and its church demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539. The fifteenth-century cloisters of the abbey are the setting for this scene, which may have been set up by Talbot's close friend and photographic disciple Calvert Jones.Portraiture and figure studies became a viable subject for photography only after Talbot's second important discovery. On September 23, 184