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Photographer, photogravure printer. Son of Julia Margaret Cameron. Henry Hay Herschel Cameron was named after his mother’s friends, Henry Taylor and Sir John Herschel. In her manuscript Annals of my Glass House, 1874, Mrs Cameron describes her youngest son as a ‘very remarkable photographer’. Mrs Cameron may well have encouraged Henry’s photography to offset his ambitions to become an actor, which was causing her some anxiety. After his mother’s death in 1879, Henry left Ceylon where he had been managing the Glencairn estate and returned to Britain. A founder member of the ‘Linked Ring’, from c.1886 to c.1902 he ran a photographic studio, which specialised in portraiture, at addresses in Mortimer Street, Marylebone and Hanover Square, Westrminster and finally in Brompton Road, Knightsbridge. Aside from his mother’s friendship with Watts, Henry’s relationship seems to have continued on a professional basis as a photographer, in that Watts seems to have used Cameron’s studio to photograph a number of paintings, some of which were badly damaged in a studio fire in 1899.
Although active as a photographer, Henry retained his interest in the theatre and in the latter years of his life, had a number of small roles.
Born: 1852
Died: 1911
Gender: Male
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? and J.C. Smith?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1859
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? and J.C. Smith?
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1885
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? and J.C. Smith?
Lady Tennyson, 1885
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? and J.C. Smith?
Bust of Arthur Hallam by Sir Francis Chantrey R.A.
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? and J.C. Smith?
James Spedding, 1885
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
W.E.H. Lecky
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Dean Bradley
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Mrs Thackeray Ritchie, ca.1867
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Professor Jowett
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Hallam, 2nd Baron Tennyson
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Robert Browning, May 1865
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1866
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
J. Russell Lowell, ca.1880-1885
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
W.H. Longfellow, July 1868
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Charles Darwin, 1868
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
George Frederick Watts R.A., 1885
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Sir John Herschel, 1867
Photogravure
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ca. 1888
Photogravure
Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1865
Photogravure