Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Taylor, a Rembrandt

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Henry Taylor, a Rembrandt
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1865, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (24.2 × 19.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (24.2 × 19.8 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.53
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


In addition to a distinguished career in civil service, Henry Taylor (1800–1886) was a widely recognized poet and playwright, and Cameron was an enthusiastic admirer of his work. Among her most frequent photographic models, he posed for her 32 times, for straightforward portraits such as this one, but also as Friar Laurence with Juliet, Prospero with Miranda, and Ahasuerus with Queen Esther. Here, both Cameron’s image and subtitle—“a Rembrandt”— make clear that she knew, admired, and sought to emulate great art of the past, linking her work in the still-new medium of photography to the traditions of fine art.



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: Sir Henry Taylor / a Rembrandt
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 781

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