CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)


William Holman Hunt, half length portrait, albumen print, mounted on card, captioned in ink "Registered Photograph. W. Holman Hunt. Julia Margaret Cameron" beneath image, a few small surface spots and "corrections", spotting to mount [Cox & Ford 687], image 242 x 192mm., [1864]
|A portrait of the William Holman Hunt, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, "as the painter of the Holy Land... sporting an elegant headdress and striped robe with stylish waistband" (Julia Margaret Cameron. Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996). Cameron had corresponded with Hunt on the subject of photography as early as 1859 (see Ford & Cox, p.42), and met him as part of the literary and artistic set that gathered at Little Holland House.