1874
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895) is a 1874 by Julia Margaret Cameron, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows a woman standing in front of a wall of ivy. She looks pale and tired, but still beautiful. This photo is interesting because it was taken after a tough time in her life. Her husband had died, leaving her with kids to care for. This affected how she looked and felt. To learn more about this style of photography, look up the technique of sfumato.
One of the renowned beauties of Victorian England, Jackson is seen in the two photographs to the left the year she married barrister Herbert Duckworth at age 21. He died three years later, leaving her with two children and a third on the way. She is seen here at age 28, a Victorian tragic heroine haunted by grief. Pale and hollow-eyed, although still lovely, she stands before a wall of ivy, an evergreen plant that signified eternity and fidelity. Four years later, Duckworth married biographer Sir Leslie Stephen with whom she had four children, including author Virginia Woolf and painter…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Julia Margaret Cameron was an English photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century.
See the richer artist pageYour cart is empty
Explore artworks →
