Julia Margaret Cameron
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Julia Margaret Cameron
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio)
albumen print, circa 1873
9 5/8 x 8 in. (244 x 203 mm)
Purchased, 1997
Primary Collection
NPG P696
Sitterback to top
- Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), Pioneer photographer. Sitter in 8 portraits, Artist associated with 114 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio) (founded 1886), Photographic Studio. Artist associated with 34 portraits.
This portraitback to top
There is no known self-portrait of Julia Margaret Cameron, the innovative (and extremely prolific) photographer of the 1860s and 70s. One photographer whom she trusted to take her portrait was her son Henry Herschel Hay Cameron. Henry opened a photographic studio in .... and was responsible for translating his mother's soft-focus photography into a commercial portrait style.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Marsh, Jan, Character Sketches: The Pre-Raphaelites, 1998
- Marsh, Jan, The Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 2013, p. 85 Read entry
Cameron named her youngest son after the eminent astronomer, who also translated Homer, 'I wish you could write in a special metre a Divine Poem on Photography,' she wrote to Herschel in 1867; 'and what the sun does to us in one Instant of Time - the imperishable Treasure of a faithful Portrait ...'
- Marsh, Jan, Insights: The Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 2005, p. 81
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 98
- Spalding, Frances, Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, 2014 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 July 2014 - 26 October 2014), p. 28
- Truss, Lynn, Tennyson and his Circle, 2015, p. 51
- Truss, Lynne, Character Sketches: Tennyson and His Circle, 1999, p. 27
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