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Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865), commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a British amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.
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- 19 January 1865 (aged 42), London, England
- Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming, 1 June 1822, Cumbernauld, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Dec 6, 2023 · Hawarden was born on June 1st 1822 and grew up outside Glasgow, Scotland. Her father was an admiral in the navy and her mother was a Spaniard renowned for her beauty. Hawarden married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, in 1845. Together they had ten children, eight of whom lived to be adults. Because Hawarden did not keep a diary, and few ...
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Clementina married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, in 1845 and lived in London until 1857, when she moved with her husband to the family estate in Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Here, she first started to experiment with photography, taking stereoscopic landscape photographs (capturing two slightly offset photographs to create a 3D ...
Lady Hawarden was the first female photographer to gain critical recognition in Britain. A recurring motif in her work is the twinning of female sitters with their reflection or another person. She created this image of her daughter, Clementina Maude, in rustic costume in their South Kensington drawing room.
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'Clementina, Lady Hawarden (Untitled) Photographic Study (or) Study from Life (D.648) c.1863-c.1864 5 Princes Gardens, interior: screen: Clementina (three-quarter length; right profile), standing, right hand supporting left hand, which holds frame of cheval-glass, in which she is reflected.
Dodier, Clementina, Lady Hawarden, Studies from Life 1857-1864, V&A Publications 1999, repr. p.93 p. 54 Carol Jacobi and Hope Kingsley ; with contributions by Elizabeth Jacklin. Painting with light : art and photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the modern ageLondon : Tate Publishing, 2016.
Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June 1822 – 19 January 1865), commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden, was a British amateur portrait photographer of the Victorian era. She produced over 800 photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.
