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 on gold-edged cabinet, 1867
NPG x18037
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1867
NPG x18069
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1867)
NPG Ax29133
by Julia Margaret Cameron
carbon print, 1867
NPG x44992
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, oval, 1867
NPG x18018
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, late 1860s
NPG x18044
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson, formerly Mrs Duckworth)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1867
NPG x18016
attributed to Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868-1870
NPG x18057
Hardinge Hay Cameron; Ewen Wrottesley Hay Cameron; Annie Cameron (née Chinery); Eugene Hay Cameron
circle of Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on cabinet mount, 1868-1870
NPG x18058
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868
NPG x18035
'The Guardian Angel' (Hatty Campbell)
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868
NPG x18067
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868
NPG x18068
(William) Edward Hartpole Lecky
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen carte-de-visite on gold-edged mount, 1868
NPG x18072
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868
NPG x18048
by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print on gold-edged cabinet, 1868-1872
NPG x18049
by Julia Margaret Cameron, published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893 (1868)
NPG Ax29139
Marie Stillman (née Spartali) as Memory
copied by Sir Emery Walker, after Julia Margaret Cameron
whole-plate glass negative, 1868
NPG x182188
Marie Stillman (née Spartali) as The Imperial Eleanore
copied by Sir Emery Walker, after Julia Margaret Cameron
whole-plate glass negative, 1868
NPG x182189
copied by Sir Emery Walker, after Julia Margaret Cameron
whole-plate glass negative, 1868
NPG x182190
copied by Sir Emery Walker, after Julia Margaret Cameron
whole-plate glass negative, 1868
NPG x182194
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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