Lionel Tennyson
About this artwork
In 1860, Cameron moved to Freshwater on the Isle of Wight to be close to her friends the Tennysons who lived on the nearby estate of Farringford. This reflective portrait shows the poet's youngest son, Lionel, who later joined the India Office. In 1885, he contracted malaria at Assam and died at sea on the journey home. Cameron's own son reminisced about Farringford: 'I hear again the voice of my best loved friend, Lionel Tennyson, and gaze once more into those fine eyes of his through which his steadfast noble soul looked out so kindly and lovingly on this world'.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879) British
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title:Lionel Tennyson
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date created:About 1866
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:Image size: 30.90 x 23.80 cm; overall: 55.80 x 40.50 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 99
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Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the most impressive photographers of the nineteenth century. Her photographs taken mainly in the 1860s consisted of religious, literary and allegorical tableaux and portraiture. She can be credited with the introduction of intense spiritual and moral concerns to...
