Literature: Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Works, cat.311
Julia Jackson, Cameron's niece and goddaughter, was one of the photographer's favourite models, and posed for over fifty portraits. Cameron often dressed her subjects to represent religious figures, but rarely did this with Julia Jackson, as if to celebrate her in her own right. The portrait offered offered here is one of the most famous, notable for the way in which the light is cast across her face and neck, and was taken just a few weeks before her first marriage to Sir Herbert Duckworth. The marriage would end in tragedy when he died three years later. She later married Sir Leslie Stephen with whom she had four children including the future Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
