Oskar Gustav Rejlander (1813-1875) orn in Sweden, Rejlander trained as a painter in Rome before settling in England. He made a place for himself in photographic history with his large allegorical picture "The Two Ways of Life". This was made from over thirty negatives and exhibited in 1857. The lack of public appreciation of "composite" pictures led him to abandon this arduous and ill-conceived genre. It was certain of his portraits that Rejlander came nearest in feeling to PreRaphealitism. Composite pictures , with their balanced arrangement of sculptural forms, often suggest the rules of the Academy and, in Rejlander's case, bespeak the years spent copying Old Masters in Rome. But his portraits are more direct. They represent a more successful attempt to advance the aesthetic side of photography and probably influenced Julia Margaret Cameron.