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
albumen print, 1868
NPG P279
(William) Edward Hartpole Lecky
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1868
NPG P987
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 3 June 1869
NPG P9
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1869
NPG P124
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1870
NPG P163
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1872
NPG P988
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1860s
NPG x18055
Untitled (unknown woman, possibly Rejlander's wife, Mary)
by Oscar Gustav Rejlander, possibly printed by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, circa 1863
NPG x200124
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1864-1870
NPG x18079
'La Madonna Riposata, Resting in Hope' (Mary Ann Hillier; Percy Seymour Keown)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1864
NPG x18025
'The turtle doves' (Alice Jessie Keown; Elizabeth Keown)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1864
NPG x18080
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1864
NPG x18078
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1864
NPG x18003
'Paul and Virginia' (William Frederick Gould; Elizabeth Keown)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1865
NPG x18038
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1865
NPG x18077
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1 June 1865
NPG x18020
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1865
NPG x18022
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, May 1865
NPG x18053
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, arched top, May 1865
NPG x18024
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, May 1865
NPG x44991
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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