| Julia Margaret Cameron The Finding of Moses (Mary Hillier with unknown child) 1864 Albumen print 20.3 x 14.5 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Photography, 6 June 2018, Lot: 4024 LL/82505 The stylized portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron were prepared with great care and have elements of both the more modern photographic realism of an unretouched close-up portrait, which contrasts strongly with the flowery Victorian era, and a more conventional religious and allegorical composition which points back to the Old Master painters. Today Cameron is rightly regarded as one of the finest portraitists in the history of photography.
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