Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-1879

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Description

Julia Margaret Cameron
George Frederic Watts. Two Studies, 1864
each 263 by 205mm

Albumen Prints, each with arched top, each mounted on card with printed gold border, the profile portrait [not illustrated] signed and titled 'From Life/G.F. Watts' by the photographer in ink on the mount below image, also inscribed 'G.F. Watts' in pencil in a later hand and annotated 'no. 6' on the reverse,

Literature

The illustrated image is a previously unrecorded portrait of Watts by Cameron. For other prints of the second study, see cat. no. 826 in Cox & Ford 2003.

Catalogue Note

George Frederic Watts sat to D.W. Wynfield at least twice and was a keen admirer of his photographic portraits. It was he who encouraged Cameron to make a study of Wynfield's photographs in order to improve her own. Interestingly, he also advised her to abandon historical costume for her sitters, the hallmark of Wynfield's published work.