Jacques-Emile Blanche — Julia Stephen, 1889.  Painting: oil on canvas, 90 x 72.5 cm. Gove

The French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche painted this portrait after a photograph of Julia Stephen taken by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron (the celebrated photographer and Pre-Raphaelite model), between 1864and1867. The sitter is famous in her own right for being the mother of writer Virginia Woolf, painter Vanessa Bell, and the founder of the Bloomsbury group, Thoby Stephen.