Julia Margaret Cameron
The Honourable Frank Charteris

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Honourable Frank Charteris
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1867, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 11/16 × 10 5/16 in. (34.7 × 26.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 10 5/16 in. (34.7 × 26.2 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.14
Not on view

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Description


Julia Margaret Cameron blended an unorthodox technique, a profoundly spiritual sensibility, and a Pre-Raphaelite–inflected aesthetic, aiming to record more than the “mere map-making and skeleton rendering of feature and form,” that she felt most conventional portrait photographers sought. She photographed the Oxford-educated Frank Charteris (1844–1870), son of the conservative politician Lord Elcho, in the summer of 1867 while he was vacationing on the Isle of Wight, where the Camerons lived. Charteris was killed in a shooting accident just three years after this portrait, at the age of 26.



ProvenanceGiven by the artist to her daughter Julia and son-in-law Charles Norman; by descent to his son Archibald Cameron Norman; by descent to his son Charles Lloyd Norman; by descent to his son Charles Wake Norman; by descent to his son to William Norman; by descent to his son Stephen Norman; [consigned to Hans P. Kraus, New York, 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on mount recto, below image: Hon[oura]ble Frank Charteris
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 632

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