Art Institute of Chicago Curator to Lecture

Art Institute of Chicago curator Sylvia Wolf will lecture on "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women," at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 19, in the Neilson Library Browsing Room, Smith College.

Cameron (1815-1879), a British photographer, was known for her soft-focus portraits of notable Victorian men and women such as Tennyson and Ellen Terry. One of Cameron's favorite models was her niece, Julia Stephen, mother of Virginia Woolf.

Selections from the collection, including the photo album of Virginia Woolf's father, Leslie Stephen, will be on display in the foyer of Neilson Library.

The lecture is in memory of Elizabeth P. Richardson, a 1943 graduate of Smith College who recently bequeathed her Bloomsbury iconography collection to the Mortimer Rare Book Room.

Both the lecture and reception that follows are free and open to the public.