Julia Margaret CameronVerenigd Koninkrijk, 1815–1879Charles Darwin
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, Verenigde Staten
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- Inventarisnummer
- 121.1952
In de catalogus
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Intussen, in het leven van Julia Margaret Cameron
Het hele leven1864–1875
Eleven years of photography
Cameron's career as a photographer lasted from 1864 to 1875: in that time she made more than 900 photographs, portraying great Victorians — Darwin, Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, Herschel, Watts, Trollope, Carlyle and the actress Ellen Terry. The Virgin Mary in her religious scenes was most often played by her housekeeper, Mary Hillier.
1865–1866
Awards in Berlin
Her work won awards in Berlin in 1865 and 1866 and an honourable mention in Dublin.
1868
First artist-in-residence of the South Kensington Museum
In 1868 the South Kensington Museum gave her two rooms to use as a portrait studio, making her its first artist-in-residence. By then her prints were being sold by two London agents, P. & D. Colnaghi and William Spooner.
first half of the 1870s
Writes “Annals of My Glass House”
In the years of her mature work, crowned by the Idylls of the King, Cameron wrote her autobiography, “Annals of My Glass House”, which remained unfinished.
