Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Pioneer photographer
Sitter in 7 portraits
Artist associated with 113 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
albumen print, 1864
NPG P214
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1864
NPG P215
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, arched top, 1864
NPG P984
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1865
NPG P52
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 19 July 1865
NPG P126
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1865-69
NPG P125
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1865
NPG P285
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1865
NPG P986
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1 June 1865
NPG P990
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, arched top, 1866
NPG P989
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P122
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, printed in reverse, 1867
NPG P123
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1867
NPG P102
Anne Isabella (née Thackeray), Lady Ritchie
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1867
NPG P53
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P201
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P213
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, late 1860s
NPG P286
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P284
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG P985
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