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.
copied by Sir Emery Walker, after Julia Margaret Cameron
whole-plate glass negative, 1870
NPG x182198
Anne Isabella (née Thackeray), Lady Ritchie
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen cabinet card, May 1870
NPG x18047
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
by Julia Margaret Cameron, distributed by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
carbon print on cabinet card, 1872
NPG x18052
Herbert William Fisher; Arthur Alexander Fisher
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18004
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18005
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18027
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth); Gerald Duckworth
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, August 1872
NPG x18017
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG x18019
'Vivien and Merlin' (Agnes Mangles (Lady Chapman); Charles Hay Cameron)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18029
'Vivien and Merlin' (Agnes Mangles (Lady Chapman); Charles Hay Cameron)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18028
'The little Novice with the Queen Guinevere in the Holy House at Almesbury'
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18032
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18031
'Elaine the Lily maid of Astolat' (May Prinsep)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18030
'Gareth and Lynette' (Andrew Kinsman Hichens; May Prinsep)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1874
NPG x18033
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1877
NPG x45042
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1868)
NPG Ax29140
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1867)
NPG Ax29135
by Julia Margaret Cameron
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 29 January 1902
NPG x137071
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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