Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is now recognised as one of the most iconic photographers of the 19th Century. Born into an Anglo-French family living in colonial India (she was one of the legendary Pattle sisters), she married a British lawyer, and had five children, before taking up photography in her late-forties.
Beautiful post! I’m a little obsessed with Virginia Woolf, and wonder what she thought about her great-aunt, and about her mother’s relationship to Julia.
What a great tribute to Cameron's work! Those pairings with the Pre-Raphaelite paintings are especially compelling. And thanks for mentioning my biography! :)
Nice piece and the model for Pomona is Alice Liddell who some years before inspired Lewis Carroll to write ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. And the model for 'Sadness' is Ellen Terry, the most celebrated Shakespearean female actor of the 19th century immortalised by John Singer Sargeant in his painting 'Lady Macbeth'. In 'Sadness' Terry is only 17 and on the eve of her marriage to the much older artist George Watts.
Thank you, James. I knew nothing about Julia Margaret Cameron so this was an enjoyable and enlightening introduction to her work.
Beautiful post! I’m a little obsessed with Virginia Woolf, and wonder what she thought about her great-aunt, and about her mother’s relationship to Julia.
Fascinating to see Cameron’s work and Rossetti’s side by side.
What a great tribute to Cameron's work! Those pairings with the Pre-Raphaelite paintings are especially compelling. And thanks for mentioning my biography! :)
Nice piece and the model for Pomona is Alice Liddell who some years before inspired Lewis Carroll to write ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. And the model for 'Sadness' is Ellen Terry, the most celebrated Shakespearean female actor of the 19th century immortalised by John Singer Sargeant in his painting 'Lady Macbeth'. In 'Sadness' Terry is only 17 and on the eve of her marriage to the much older artist George Watts.