Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)Charles Hay Cameron, 1871 Albumen print, signed, titled, dated, inscribed 'From Life Registered Photograph' in ink and Colnaghi dry stamp on the mount. 13 x 10 1/8in (33 x 25.6cm) mount 20 x 16 1/2in (50.8 x 42cm) FootnotesIn 1836, convalescing from an illness at the Cape of Good Hope, Julia Margaret Pattle met the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel and the classical scholar and jurist Charles Hay Cameron, twenty years her senior and once described by Alfred, Lord Tennyson as "a philosopher with his beard dipped in moonlight." Two years later, in February 1838, she and Cameron were married in Calcutta. In the following decade, Charles rose to the positions of president of the Calcutta Council of Education and member of the Supreme Council of India, while Julia Margaret played an increasingly important role in social and diplomatic circles of British India. When Charles retired in 1848, he, Julia Margaret, and their six children moved to the Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret now began her illustrious new role as a photographer. Like other members of her family and circle of friends, Charles was frequently pressed into service as a model - not only for straightforward portraits such as this tender study, but also for Julia's more theatrical pictures where he appears as King Lear and Merlin.
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)Charles Hay Cameron, 1871 Albumen print, signed, titled, dated, inscribed 'From Life Registered Photograph' in ink and Colnaghi dry stamp on the mount. 13 x 10 1/8in (33 x 25.6cm) mount 20 x 16 1/2in (50.8 x 42cm) FootnotesIn 1836, convalescing from an illness at the Cape of Good Hope, Julia Margaret Pattle met the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel and the classical scholar and jurist Charles Hay Cameron, twenty years her senior and once described by Alfred, Lord Tennyson as "a philosopher with his beard dipped in moonlight." Two years later, in February 1838, she and Cameron were married in Calcutta. In the following decade, Charles rose to the positions of president of the Calcutta Council of Education and member of the Supreme Council of India, while Julia Margaret played an increasingly important role in social and diplomatic circles of British India. When Charles retired in 1848, he, Julia Margaret, and their six children moved to the Isle of Wight, where Julia Margaret now began her illustrious new role as a photographer. Like other members of her family and circle of friends, Charles was frequently pressed into service as a model - not only for straightforward portraits such as this tender study, but also for Julia's more theatrical pictures where he appears as King Lear and Merlin.
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