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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) Henry Taylor, a portrait. 1865. Albumen print, the image measuring 11x9 inches (27.9x22.9 cm.), the two-toned mount 15x11¼ inches (38.1x28.6 cm.), with Cameron's signature, the title, and notation "From Life" in ink, and the Colnaghi blind stamp, on mount recto.
Provenance Swann Galleries, sale 1981, lot 24, October 21, 2003; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Reproduced Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 352, pl. 783
Throughout his working life at the Colonial Office (for which he was knighted in 1869), Henry Taylor (1800-1886) was a prolific author. His best-known works were four verse plays, including Philip von Artevelde, a drama based on the Elizabethan model, and The Statesman, his ironic view on the art of success.
