Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)
Nationality: British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Julia Margaret Cameron began her career at the age of forty-eight after receiving a camera as a gift. Most of her work was shot around her home at Freshwater of the Isle of Wight. Her models consisted of her family, friends, and domestic servants. Married to a retired jurist, Cameron and her husband were members of high society in Victorian England. She photographed the intellectuals and leaders in her circle of friends, including portraitist George Frederick Watts, astronomer Sir John Herschel, and the Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Many of her pictures were inspired my literature and also the paintings of Raphael, Giotto, and Michelangelo.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Julia Duckworth
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Julia Jackson
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson 1867 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson 1867 albumen silver print The Art Institute of Chicago
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Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen
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J.F.W. Herschel
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Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron Title: Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun Date: 19th century Medium:
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Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron Title: Carlyle Date: 1867 Medium: photogravure Dimensions: H.8-9/16 x W.6-1/4 in.
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Julia Margaret Cameron Sir John F. W. Herschel Carbon print 1867
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Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron Title: Venus Chiding Cupid Depriving Him of His Wings Date: 1872
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Julia Margaret Cameron The Angel at the Sepulchre or The Angel at the Tomb Albumen print 1869
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Paul and Virginia
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson Duckworth 1867 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron Title: The Spirit of Spring Date: n.d. Medium: albumen print Dimensions:
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Robert Browning, Julia Margaret Cameron (India, Calcutta, 1815 - 1879)  (Artist), circa 1880, Photogravure
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Mrs. Leslie Stephen (Julia Duckworth) Photograph, carbon print (printed later)
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Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron Title: Kate Keown Date: 1866 Medium: albumen print Dimensions: H.2-5/16 x
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Whisper of the Muse / Portrait of G.F. Watts
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Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of a Woman (Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque) Albumen print mounted to a heavier sheet 1868
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Julia Margaret Cameron Lancelot and Guinevere - Titlepage Harper's Weekly 1 September 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Prayer and Praise
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Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of Charles Norman albumen print from glass collodion negative mounted to a heavier sheet circa 1868
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 The May-queen The May Queen Photograph, carbon print (printed later)
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 "Call and I follow----let me die" Photograph, carbon print (printed
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Henry W. Longfellow Photograph, carbon print (printed later) Image/Sheet: 36.8
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Gretchen at the Altar Photograph, carbon print (printed later) Image/Sheet:
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 The late Mrs. Leslie Stephens 1872 Photograph, carbon print (printed
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Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Queen of the May 1875 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron The Passing of Arthur, an illustration for the book Idylls of the King and Other Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (published 1874) albumen print from glass collodion negative mounted to an album page 1874
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Group Portrait (Julia Duckworth with Florence, George and Herbert Fisher)
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Sir John Herschel 1867 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Days at Freshwater 1870 albumen print from w Cincinnati Art Museum British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Our Twin Sisters c. 1867 albumen print The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Christabel, 1866 (?) Photograph, albumen print Image (top rounded): 31.3
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Rebecca Photograph, albumen print Image/Sheet (oval): 34.9 x 27.0 cm
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 The Passion Flower at the Gate 1865-70 Photograph, albumen print
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Sir John Herschel, The Astronomer 1867 albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Kalutara Peasant Group 1878 albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Elaine (from Idylls of the King) 1874 albumen print University of California, Berkeley Art Museum British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Mary Hiller and Two Children 1864 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Study of Beatrice Cenci 1866 albumen print New Orleans Museum of Art
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Adriana 1866? Photograph, albumen print Image/Sheet (top corners rounded): 36.1
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Alfred Tennyson with his sons Hallam and Lionel 1865-69 Photograph,
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Zoe, Maid of Athens, 1866? Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815-1879)Albumen silver print from glass negative;
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Julia Margaret Cameron - The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty 1866 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Call, I follow, I follow, let me die! (Mary Hillier) 1867 carbon print from or The Royal Photographic Society British
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David Young Cameron The Boddin Drypoint 1911
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David Young Cameron Tillietudlem Etching 1889
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David Young Cameron Arran Etching 1889
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David Young Cameron Tweedside Etching 1890
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David Young Cameron Newgate Etching 1899
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David Young Cameron Amboise Etching 1902
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William R. Cameron The Black Sheep Lithograph 1946
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David Young Cameron In Stirling Castle Etching 1899
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David Young Cameron Thames Warehouses Etching 1890
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William R. Cameron Reverie Dryopint 19th - 20th century
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David Young Cameron The Sycamore Etching and drypoint 1905
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David Young Cameron Bookplate 19th - 20th century
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David Young Cameron Perth Bridge Etching 1889

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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National Gallery of Victoria: Victorian Photographs: Julia Margaret Cameron - Annals of My Glass House
In her fragmentary autobiography Annals of My Glass House, Julia Margaret Cameron records that she took her first successful photograph in January ...
Ohio Art League: Jennifer Radcliff and Gregory Cameron: Member Curated Exhibition (MCE)
The exhibition will open with an artist reception at the Ohio Art League Gallery, 954 North High Street, on Saturday, November 4 from 6-9 pm during the Short North Gallery Hop. The Ohio Art League invites it’s 500 artists to submit a short...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Cameron Platter: Life is Very Interesting
It features all the tried and tested themes of love and revenge, temptation and crookery, megalomania and obscene excess in the war between good and evil in contemporary South Africa. It promises to be an action-packed spectacle of crime and punis...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Love at First Sight: Chris Barry, Pat Brassington, Janina Green, Siri Hayes, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Selina Ou, Sanja Pahoki, Kimberly Roxburgh, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka
'from the first moment that I handled my lens with a tender ardour... it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour' - Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874 Love at First Sight celebrates women in front of, behind and...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Organized by Sylvia Wolf, associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and recently named photography curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and coordinated...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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Art Gallery of Ontario: Take a New Look at Contemporary Art
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New Museum of Contemporary Art: Paul McCarthy: Survey of Work
Organized by Lisa Phillips and Dan Cameron, the exhibition premiered at the Museum of Contemporar...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video
This exhibition is an attempt, in several sections, to keep track of the history and the transformations of the medium. It starts out with photographic pieces from the 19th century that still tried to translate ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Cildo Meireles
Shaped by the prevailing political, cultural and social conditions in Brazil during the dictatorships of the 1960s, 70s, and recent years, Meireles' work is associated ...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: William Kentridge: A View of Personal Conflicts Set Against the Background of South Africa
Co-organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the show travels next to New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Cape Town. (Staci Borrus, Dan Cameron and Neal Benezra, joint curato...
Digital Fine Art Society of New Mexico: Call for Artists: New Mexico Digital 2003
Entry deadline is April 15th. - For 2-d, 3-d and installation art, download a prospectus at www.dfasnm.org. - For video or animation prospectus, please e-mail Erin Cameron at bigplanetproductions@hotmail.com. The Digital Fine Arts Societ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: About Face: Contemporary Portraiture and Painting
Celebrated South African artists Cameron Platter, Nigel Mullins, Norman O’Flynn, Paul du Toit, Sanell Aggenbach and Tanya Poole were invited to use the genre both as a form of self and societal reflection.   From the frivolous and potentiall...
SITE Santa Fe: José Antonio Hernández-Diez
The emergence of this generation of artists occurred in the late 1980s, at nearly the same time that Venezuelans began a public process of searching for the solution to the economic and social crisis in their country. Hernández-Diez’s work is as e...
Detriot Institute of Art: Where the Girls Are: Photographs by Women in the Permanent Collection
This exhibition examines the enduring presence of women throughout the history of photography with a survey from the museum’s photograph collection that ranges from the 19th century through the present day. ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Picnic: A Summer Show - Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
Artists included in the exhibition are Usha Seejarim, Kathryn Smith, Doreen Southwood, Kevin Brand, Matthew Hindley, Ed Young, Christian Nerf, Sanell Aggenbach, Geoff Grundlingh, Zen Marie, Vuyisa Nyamende and Cameron Platter, Brett Murray, and Sv...
Zest Cafe Gallery: Cyberart to the Dining Table: Works by Fifteen International Artists
Participating artists are: Shankar Barua/INDIA
Mike Butler/CANADA
Dr. Rodney Chang*(Pygoya)/USA
Wayne J. Cosshall/AUSTRALIA
Andrew Cottingham/NEW ZEALAND
Wellington City Gallery: Surprise - A Christmas Exhibition
The artists worked within set dimensions, which meant a large number of works could be included in the show, says Rebecca Wilson, curator of 360 / Michael Hirschfeld Gallery. Almost all have responded to the invitation with new work, so the exh...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Artist Observed: Portraits and Self-Portraits
Included are works by such influential artists as Anthony Van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, James McNeill Whistler, Auguste Rodin, Oskar Kokoschka, and Ansel Adams. Their observations create a lively narrative across fo...
National Gallery of Canada: Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts appoints an independent peer jury of artists and arts professionals from across Canada to select the winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governo...
National Ordo Templi Orientis: Call For Entries: Reflections of the New Aeon
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to have your work displayed alongside major works by these noted luminaries. This will be the largest showing of Marjorie Cameron's work in a single setting since the 1960's. Along with her work, will be...
Monash University Gallery: ArtArt: Selected Works from the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.
The artists involved are: Joe Angwin, Vita Beder, Cameron Bishop, Pia Blair, Daniel Cordner, Marcus Dillon, Nicole Durling, David Fitzsimmons, Osian Grant, Jodie Goldring, Brad Haylock, ...
MASS MoCA: MASS MoCA Welcomes MoCI Curator, Superfiction Expert
The presentation will also celebrate ten years of the fictive Museum of Contemporary Ideas on New York's Park Avenue. Arguably the largest contemporary art space in the world, this was the first of many superf...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: SUPERNOVA: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection
The exhibition takes its title from Takashi Murakami’s tour de force painting Super Nova, 1999, which depicts “the destruction of an earthly terrain by atomic weapons whose mushroom clouds are rendered in ravishingly colorful detail,” according to...
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: The Barnstormers
According to Ellis, their journeys south have had a major impact on their work as they continue to interpret and communicate the visual, cultural, and spiritual awakenings from their projects here. The group carefully documents their activity by p...
Istanbul Biennial: 8th Istanbul Biennial: Curated by Dan Cameron of New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York
The artistic framework of the 8th International Istanbul Biennial is formed around the concept of Poetic Justice. In proposing this phrase as the basis for a sustained investigation into the latest developments in contemporary art, the exhibiti...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Thomas Carlyle: A Hero of His Time
Born in Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason, Carlyle was educated at Edinburgh University and became one of the most prolific and influential writers of the nineteenth century. A man of passionate convictions, he was regarded by his contemporari...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
The new premises at 89 Bree Street (between Shortmarket and Hout Streets) was originally built in 1752. The space is elegant and spacious , with a touch of old world charm about it. The gallery will now be situated on two floors and a roof top gar...
Yale Center for British Art: The Art of Bloomsbury
The Yale Center for British Art is the final stop for this exhibition that includes masterpiece paintings from the collections of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery (L...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Aernout Mik: Refraction
Aernout Mik is known internationally for his video installations that stage narratives based on semi-imagined catastrophes, evoking uncertainty about what is really happening. In his surreal, often semi-apocalyptic scenarios, Miks work clearly com...
Jen Bekman: The Girl's Room: By The Dreier Project
It allows for the viewer to see the work without the material being the message. The artwork itself will be the message and perhaps answer some questions about the place of women’s artwork in the art world. Questions such as: What sort of work a...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things ...
BoMA, Bar of Modern Art: Coined Operation: Fragmentation
Operation: Fragmentation is the brainchild of Guest Curator Laura Kuenzli, an avid supporter of the recent art toy movement and its prominent illustrators. Inspired by this subculture’s relative lack of exposure in the Columbus, OH area, she to...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Guy Bourdin in the Main Galleries as Prep is Made for New Galleries
The new Photography Gallery will provide visitors with a superb resource, serving as an introduction to the history of photography and to the national collection of the art of photography. The photography collection began in 1852 and now holds 300...
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery: No Dead Artists Opens Its 13th Annual Exhibition
Each year hundreds of artists submit their work to a jury of renowned arts professionals and noted collectors. Participation in the show has been a springboard for several artists leading to national recognition, museum and corporate acquisitions,...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: José Antonio Hernández-Diez: His First Major Museum Exhibition
One of the most important South American artists to have emerged in the last decade, Hernández-Diez creates candid, poetic, and at times disturbing and irreverent multi-media installations inspired by the vernacular culture and traditions of hi...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Stepping In and Out: Contemporary Documentary Photography
The theme of the exhibition is two-fold; certain photographers have immersed themselves, or 'stepped in’ to, communities different from their own, documenting the situations and relationships that then unfold. Other photographers adopt the new ro...
Cartography Associates: AMICO Library Treasures Open for Public Exploration
The AMICO Library™ is an important collection because it is both a great resource for arts appreciation and learning, says David Rumsey, whose digital publishing company, Cartography Associates, has supported Internet access to other key cultural ...

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