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The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Joachim, 1868
albumen silver photograph
26.0 x 32.7cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
85:2015
Joseph Joachim (1831–1907) was a brilliant Hungarian violinist and
composer who studied in Vienna and Leipzig and knew the composers Brahms and
Mendelssohn. His most important composition was the Hungarian Concerto.
Cameron took this photograph at her sister Sarah's home, Little Holland
House, at a time when the violinist was also sitting for a portrait by the
painter, G.F. Watts. Joachim has a dark velvet curtain draped around him that
Cameron used in several other portraits.
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