The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty by Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, Julia Margaret Cameron, 1870, platinum print, George Eastman House

Charles Hay Cameron by Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Hay Cameron, 1864, albumen print, George Eastman House

Born in Calcutta in 1815 to an English civil servant and his French wife, Julia Margaret Pattle studied in France and England before marrying Charles Cameron, an English jurist and member of the Council of India. The Camerons settled in Calcutta in 1838, where Julia surrounded herself with English society, entertaining, writing, and translating poetry, and reveling in Indian cultural life.