Henry Herschel Hay Cameron
{{Short description|British photographer (1852–1911)}}
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Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (1852{{snd}}1911) was a British photographer and the son of Julia Margaret Cameron.
Early life and education
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, or H. H. H. Cameron, was born in East Sheen, Surrey, England in 1852.Henry Herschel Hay Cameron | The Art Institute of Chicago. (1852). Retrieved from https://www.artic.edu/artists/48046/henry-herschel-hay-cameron He was named after British astronomer and photochemist Sir John Herschel, a friend of his mother.
Henry was British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's youngest son with Benthamite jurist and philosopher Charles Hay Cameron whose father was Charles Cameron, Governor of the Bahamas. Henry was also the grandson of Scottish nobleman James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll. His older brother was named Charles Hay Cameron after his father and was born in 1849.List of Carthusians, 1800 to 1879 .... (1879). (n.p.): Farncombe and Company. Another one of his sibilings was Hardinge Hay Cameron. His sister Julia was the mother of British diplomat Herman Cameron Norman.
In 1865, he and his brother, Charles, entered the Charterhouse School, an independent boarding school in Surrey, England. When he was 19 years old, he was enrolled at the University College, Oxford on 23 January 1871.Oxford University Gazette (p. 33). (1870). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.Foster, J. (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 ... (p. 212). United Kingdom: Parker and Company.
Henry moved with his family members to British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1875.Collections Online | British Museum. (2024). Britishmuseum.org; British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG133387 In Ceylon, he and his brother were coffee planters. His father had purchased an estate in what is now Sri Lanka 30 years prior to their departure while he was in service to the Crown and a member of the law commission in Calcutta.Taylor, H. (1885). Autobiography of Henry Taylor. 1800-1875 (p. 51). United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Company. Upon his mother's death in 1879, he vacated his position at the Glencairn estate in Ceylon to return to Britain.Henry Herschel Hay Cameron | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/henry-herschel-hay-cameron-1
Career
In the mid-1880s, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron launched into professional photography by opening 'The Cameron Studio' on Mortimer Street in London. He operated this studio, which specialized in portraiture, from around 1886 to 1902. At the Cameron Studio, he showcased a collection of his mother's work, including portraits of Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, Lowell, Darwin, Herschel, and others. He also put her original camera on display.The Bookman (p. 185). (1898). United States: Dodd, Mead and Company.
Cameron was a founding member of The Linked Ring, a British photographic society, established in 1892.
In 1905, Cameron left photography behind to start a career in theater.Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio) – National Portrait Gallery. (2024). Npg.org.uk. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp05126/henry-herschel-hay-cameron-later-the-cameron-studio
Death
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron died in 1911 in Croydon, South London, England.
Gallery
George Frederic Watts by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron.jpg|George Frederic Watts
Lady Ottoline Morrell by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (2).jpg|Lady Ottoline Morrell
Walter Leaf by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron.jpg|Walter Leaf
Leonard Cecil Colin Lindsay by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron.jpg|Leonard Cecil Colin Lindsay
Alice Stopford Green, circa 1880s.jpg|Alice Stopford Green
References
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External links
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Category:People from East Sheen
Category:British photographers
Category:19th-century British photographers
Category:19th-century photographers