3-044-619 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Grief, about 1865. Portrait of Kate Keown posing as the personification of Grief. She wears a shawl loosely wrapped around her bare shoulders and she looks at the camera with an expression of sadness. 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.