2-777-656 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867. This portrait of Julia Jackson, suggests Christian and classical ideals of purity, strength, and grace. The photograph was made the year Julia married Herbert Duckworth. Her second marriage, in 1878, to the great Victorian intellectual Sir Leslie Stephen, produced the painter Vanessa Bell and the writer Virginia Woolf. In her novel To the Lighthouse (1927), Virginia portrayed her mother as the searching, sensitive Mrs. Ramsay, ever suspended in thought.