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The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Portrait of Henry Taylor (as Prospero), 1867
albumen silver photograph
22.8 x 28.0cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
85:2340
In this study Julia Margaret Cameron's patient friend and her most
photographed male subject, Henry Taylor, wears an artist's beret. He also
wears the beret in several other portraits including one titled Rembrandt –
modelled after the great Dutch artist. He appears in this portrait as
Prospero, the wise magician and father figure from Shakespeare's play The
Tempest. Cameron also made several other studies of scenes from The Tempest
with Taylor as Prospero and Mary Ryan as his daughter Miranda.
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