Another source of inspiration for the young artists was the writing of art critic John Ruskin, particularly the famous passage from Modern Painters telling artists “to go to nature in all singleness of heart. These were not qualities favored by the more academic approach taught at the Royal Academy during the mid 19th century, which stressed the strong light and dark shading of the Old Masters. The young artists appreciated the simplicity of line and large flat areas of brilliant color found in the early Italian painters before Raphael, as well as in 15th century Flemish art. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.The name “Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” (PRB) hints at the vaguely medieval subject matter for which the group is known. Scanned from Colin Ford’s Julia Margaret Cameron: 19th Century Photographer of Genius. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on the Isle of Wight, England in 1868. Marianne North (1830-1890) at her home in Ceylon. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Ĭharles Darwin Albumen print, 11.25 x 9.5 inches, 1868. McDonald & Queen Anne, London, 1984.īeatrice Cenci.
Source: Lewis Carroll with a text by Graham Ovenden (Masters of Photography series). 1866.Ĭameron portrait of Julia Prinsep Jackson, later Julia Stephen, Cameron’s niece, favourite subject, and mother of the author Virginia Woolf. Portrait of Henry Thoby Prinsep, member of the Prinsep family, descendants of John Prinsep, merchant in India and later Member of Parliament. George Eastman House Collection.Ĭharles Hay Cameron, husband of Julia Margaret Cameron. George Eastman House Collection.Įntitled “Sadness”, this photo shows the actress Ellen Terry at the age of 16. Wist ye not that your father and I sought thee sorrowing? Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.
Subject is Annie Wilhelmina Philpot (1854-1930). “Annie my first success”, Julia Margaret Cameron’s first photo that she was pleased with. Originally from National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.
Julia Margaret Cameron died in Kalutara, Ceylon, on January 26, 1879.
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