3-044-459 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

My Ewen's Bride, 1869. In November 1869 Cameron's second son, Ewen Wrottesley Hay (1841-1888), married Annie Chinery (born about 1851, death date unknown), the daughter of a prominent doctor on the Isle of Wight. The union was celebrated in a number of prenuptial portraits of the bride-to-be, including a stunning full-length study of her attired in her wedding finery. Annie was Cameron's first daughter-in-law and was eagerly seized upon both maternally and photographically by her new mother-in-law. In Cameron's portraits she is presented in various guises, but always as the progenitor of a new generation of Camerons, descended from the distinguished female Pattle line. Pioneering British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is considered to be one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She took up photography at the age of 48, after her daughter gave her a camera as a present.