1867
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) is a 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a portrait of a man with a kind face and gentle eyes. He's sitting with his hands clasped together. This painting is interesting because it shows the respect the artist had for the subject, Sir John Herschel, a mathematician and scientist. You can learn more about the photographer who took this picture by looking up artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879).
Herschel, a renowned British mathematician, scientist, and innovator in photographic chemistry, was not just Cameron’s friend; she regarded him as “a Teacher and High Priest.” She wrote that when such great men posed for her, her “whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner [being] as well as the features of the outer man.”
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.
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