Julia Margaret Cameron (Teil 1) Relaunch

Julia Margaret Pattle was born on June 11, 1815 in Calcutta, India as the fourth child of the Pattle couple. She spent her school years with her siblings primarly with her grandmother Thérèse Joseph de l'Etang in Versailles and in England. At the age of 21 she returned to India. In South Africa she met 1836 Charles Hay Cameron, a British lawyer and John Herschel, which led to a lifelong friendship. She marrierd Charles Hay Cameron in Calcutta 1838 and had 4 sons and 1 daughter.
In 1848 Charles Hay Cameron retired and the couple returned to England. Not far from Hayde Park Corner was the Little Holland House, where Sarah Prinsep, JM Cameron's sister ran a literary salon, where artists, writers and scientists met in loose gatherings. It was there that JM Cameron met a lot of colorful personalities such as William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Joseph Joachim and Dante Gabriel Rosetti etc.
The painter G. F. Watts was amazied by the beauty of the Pattle Sisters, who moved elegantly in their simple but precious silk robes. Watts had a major influence on the later framing of Cameron' s photographic mediaval scenarios.
1848 seven young British painters foundet the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoud of Artists. It was about the renewal of painting, with great empasis being placed on detailed representation. Photography was a part of their inspiration. Characteristic was their bright, radiant colors.The painter and art critic John Ruskin vehemently called a "return to nature". Long before the Impressionists, the Pre-Raphaelites painted their pictures outdoors. John Everett Millais created his famous painting "Ophelia" in 1851-52. The photograph by H. P. Robinson "The Lady Shalott" (1861) corresponds to the style of the Pre-Raphealites.
In 1850 the Camerons moved to the Isle of Wight, near Freshwater Bay in southern England to Freshwater. They namd their new home "Dimbola" in memory of their home in Ceylon.
Julia Margaret's husband was almost constantly away on his plantations in Ceylon, while his wife stayed in Freshwater and became increasingly lonely. This was also the case in 1862-63, where they were major crop failures due to weather and pest infection in Ceylon, which seriously threatened the Cameron' s existence.
In December 1863 JM Cameron visited her daugther Julia and her husband Charles Norman in London. To get their mother out of her melancholic, depressive mood, the two gave her a wooden panel camera completed with chemicals and a darkroom equipment.