JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

William Michael Rossetti, 1865; William Gifford Palgrave; George Frederic Watts, circa 1869; Cameron, painted by Watts, circa 1868

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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
William Michael Rossetti, 1865; William Gifford Palgrave; George Frederic Watts, circa 1869; Cameron, painted by Watts, circa 1868
Four albumen prints, 3.1/8 x 2¼ in., 3¼ x 2¼ in., 2 x 2 in. (circular) and 2¾ x 2 in. (oval) respectively, each mounted as a carte-de-visite, the first signed in ink From Life Registered Julia Margaret Cameron and with inscription W. M. Rossetti in pencil on mount, gilt edges, each with annotations including dates in a later hand on verso. (4)

Literature

Weaver [Ed.], Whisper of the Muse, p. 93, no.73v. (Rossetti illus.); Gernsheim, ibid., p. 119 (Palgrave illus.) and p. 101 (Watts illus., variant crop); Howard, Whisper of the Muse, pl. 51 (Watts's portrait of Cameron).

Lot Essay

Rossetti (1829-1919), brother of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an art critic, writer and founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Palgrave (1826-1888) was a traveller and diplomat who often travelled in disguise as a Syrian doctor through Syria and Arabia; and Watts (1817-1904) was a painter and sculptor who completed approximately 300 portraits of his contemporaries. A great friend of Cameron, he introduced her to several of her sitters. His portrait of Cameron, which she has copied here, was painted in 1850.

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