Julia Margaret Cameron
(1815-1879), Pioneer photographerSitter in 9 portraits
Artist associated with 119 portraits
Born in Calcutta, educated in England and Paris, she married Charles Hay Cameron, a lawyer, in Calcutta in 1838, and moved to England on his retirement. Cameron was given her first camera 1863 and had her first exhibition at Colnaghi's in 1865. Despite her success, in 1875 she left Britain for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where they had coffee plantations, remaining there until her death three years later. Cameron is best known for her portraits of great Victorians such as Darwin, Herschel, Watts and Tennyson and illustrations to the latter's Idylls of the King. Her unfinished autobiography Annals of my Glasshouse was written in 1874 and published in 1889.
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (May 1865)
NPG Ax29131
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, May 1865
NPG x18023
'La Madonna Aspettante' (William Frederick Gould; Mary Ann Hillier)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1865
NPG x18071
'Boadicea' (Susan Anne Eliza Muir-Mackenzie)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1865
NPG x18026
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x18064
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1865)
NPG Ax29134
'The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty' (Annie Keene (née Edwards))
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866
NPG x18061
Mary Louisa Fisher (née Jackson)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
matte collodion printing-out paper print, 1866-1867
NPG x18083
Mary Louisa Fisher (née Jackson)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
chlorobromide copy print on card mount, 1866-1867
NPG x18082
'Cherub and Seraph' (William Frederick Gould; Elizabeth Keown)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1866
NPG x18006
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866
NPG x18039
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866
NPG x18045
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866
NPG x18046
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1866
NPG x18015
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, arched top, 1866
NPG x18014
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866-1870
NPG x18059
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1866)
NPG Ax29132
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1866
NPG x18060
Mary Ann Hillier as Mary Mother
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1867
NPG x18041
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, April 1867
NPG x18040
Related People
- Charles Hay Cameron (husband)
- Charles ('Charlie') Hay Cameron (son)
- Eugene Hay Cameron (son)
- Ewen Wrottesley Hay Cameron (son)
- Hardinge Hay Cameron (son)
- Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (son)
- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (nephew)
- Mary Louisa Fisher (née Jackson) (niece)
- Maria ('Mia') Jackson (sister)
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep (nephew)
- Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth) (niece)
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