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Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden

British photographer (–)

Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden (née Elphinstone Fleeming; 1 June – 19 January ),[1] commonly known as Lady Clementina Hawarden,[2][n 1] was a British amateur portrait photographer[3] of the Victorian era.

She produced over photographs mostly of her adolescent daughters.[4][5]

Family

Clementina was born in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, on 1 June , the third of five children of Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (–), and Catalina Paulina Alessandro (–).[6][7]

Her father served in the Colombian war of independence, the Venezuelan war of independence, as well as the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

He was a member of parliament for Stirlingshire in , and died when Clementina was age [7]

In , she married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, who was an Irish Conservative politician, and they lived mainly in Ireland;[7] the couple had eight girls and two boys.[8][7]

Photography

She turned to photography in tardy or, probably, in early , whilst living on the family estate in Dundrum, County Tipperary, Ireland.

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A move to London in allowed her to set up a studio in her stylish home in South Kensington. There she took many of the characteristic portraits for which she is principally remembered. Many contain her adolescent daughters Isabella Grace, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth.

The furniture and characteristic decor of an upper-class London home was removed in order to produce mise-en-scene images and theatrical poses within the first floor of her home.[9] Hawarden used mirrors to create a 'body double' and natural sunlight to illumination her shots, which was 'groundbreaking'.[7] She produced her own albumen prints from wet-plate collodion negatives, a method commonly used at the time.[9]

The Viscountess Hawarden first exhibited in the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of London in January and was elected a member of the Society the following March.

English photographer of posed figure studies. Name variations: Lady Clementina Hawarden. Pronunciation: HAY-ward-en. Part of a group of aristocratic British women who began to practice photography during the s, Lady Clementina Hawarden distinguished herself by moving beyond the role of family chronicler to that of experimental artist.

Her work was acclaimed for its artistic excellence, winning her the silver medal for composition at the exhibition.

She then died of pneumonia before formally collecting it. She was aged [7]

Works and legacy

At a Grand Fête and Bazaar held to raise funds for a new building for the Royal Female School of Art she set up a booth where she photographed guests, the only known occasion on which she took photographs in public.[10]Lewis Carroll, an admirer of her operate, brought two children to be photographed at this booth, and purchased the resulting prints.[11]

Her perform is often likened or 'compared favourably' to fellow aristocratic photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, although their aesthetics differ widely, as Cameron put less of an emphasis on composition, backgrounds or props.[7]

Her photographic years were brief but prolific.

Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs between and her sudden death in Lady Hawarden's photographic focus remained on her children.

The daughter of Admiral Charles Elphinestone Fleeming and Catalina Paulina Alessandro, Lady Clementina Hawarden became the most pioneering Victorian female photographer during the s, yet very little is actually known about her – she did not keep a diary and few of her letters remain.

There is only one photograph believed to feature the Viscountess herself, yet it could also be a portrait of her sister Anne Bontine.[4]

A collection of portraits were donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in by Hawarden's granddaughter Clementina Tottenham.

The photographs were torn or cut from family albums. This accounts for the torn and trimmed corners which are now considered a hallmark of Hawarden's work.[4] It also indicates that the images were produced for family pleasure, not for commercial gain, which would have been considered inappropriate for 'an elite lady'.[7]

Carol Mavor writes extensively about the place of Hawarden's work in the history of Victorian photography.

She states "Hawarden's pictures raise significant issues of gender, motherhood, and sexuality as they relate to photography's inherent attachments to loss, duplication and replication, illusion, fetish."[4]

Gallery

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  • Clementina Hawarden, Clementina Maude

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  • Clementina Hawarden, Clementina Maude and Isabella,

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Notes

  1. ^According to the British peerage she should be referred to as "Clementina, Lady Hawarden", or "Clementina Maude", but today her complete styles are rarely used.

References

  1. ^"Lady Clementina Hawarden".

    Victoria and Albert Museum. 2 November Retrieved 16 May

  2. ^"Lady Clementina Hawarden" at The Pre-Raphaelites Photographs Exhibition Archived 28 February at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^Robinson, Hilary (8 October ).

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  4. ^ abcdMavor, Carol (). Becoming&#;: the photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1st&#;ed.).

    Lady Clementina Hawarden — 65 was a pioneering and prolific amateur photographer who captured some photographs, mostly sun-drenched portraits of her daughters, from her place in South Kensington, London. Lady Hawarden is an enigmatic figure — much of her experience remains a mystery. Most of what we do know about Hawarden has been pieced together from her photographs. Her father, Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, was well-known for his part in the Venezuelan and Colombian wars of liberation about —

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  5. ^Crompton, Sarah (6 May ). "She takes a good picture: six forgotten female pioneers of photography". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 May
  6. ^"The Scottish aristocrat whose pioneering photography drew admiration from Lewis Carroll".

    Lady Clementina Hawarden ( – 65) was a pioneering and prolific amateur photographer who captured some photographs, mostly sun-drenched portraits of her daughters, from her home in South Kensington, London. Lady Hawarden is an enigmatic figure – much of her life remains a mystery.

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  7. ^ abcdefghRoberts, Stephen (May ).

    "A Snap in Time". Scottish Field: 48–

  8. ^"Burke's Peerage" th Edition Delaware
  9. ^ abVictoria and Albert Museum. (). "Lady Clementina Hawarden: Working Methods." Retrieved 14 March
  10. ^Virginia., Dodier ().

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    Three years' later, inMiss Fleeming married Cornelius Maude, despite his family's objections on social class grounds. The gleeful couple became the proud parents of ten children, and after the death of Mr. Maude's father inthe son became the 4th Viscount Hawarden, and with that title came an Irish estate and great wealth. With her social and financial status now secure, the young mother could enjoy a more leisurely life of a titled lady.

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  11. ^Leggatt, Robert. "A History of Photography".

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