Clementina Hawarden
Lady Clementina was born on 1st June to Admiral Charles Elphinestone Fleeming and Catalina Paulina Alessandro. Not much is known about her as she did not keep a diary, and few of her letters remain. Her photographs, however – a staggering or so made within a short span – provide insight into her life.
Lady Clementina married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount of Hawarden, in and lived in London until , before moving to the family estate in Dundrum, Ireland. Here, she began her first experiments in landscape photography. During this time she also gave birth to ten children &#; eight girls and two boys &#; and was a devoted mother. Despite the rigours of motherhood, Lady Clementina didn’t let her passion for photography waver.
The family moved back to London in , and Lady Clementina began photographing her daughters, first creating stereoscopic photographs, and later moving to large-format portraits. She set up a studio in the family’s South Kensington home. Unlike male photographers at the time, who could travel to take pictures, Lady Clementina had to stay within the perimeters of her home. However, the exquisite photographs she took of her adolescent da
| Lady Clementina Hawarden |
Biography from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Luminous Lint Portfolio
Selection from the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
Selection of Photographs from "The Telegraph"
Themes and Styles from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Working Methods from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Born Clementina Elphinstone Fleeming in Dunbartonshire in , she was the third of five children of a British father, Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (), and a Spanish mother, Catalina Paulina Alessandro (). In she married Cornwallis Maude, an Officer in the Life Guards. In Maude's father, Viscount Hawarden, died and his title, and considerable wealth, passed to Cornwallis.
The surviving photographs suggest that Clementina, now Lady Hawarden, began to take photographs on the Hawarden's Irish estate at Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, from late Many of these were taken with a stereoscopic camera, and the present collect
Next to a window with shafts of light providing shadowy illumination into a sparsely furnished room stands an adolescent girl. There is a look of casual awkwardness about her, yet she has an enigmatic stare towards the camera, showing a degree of trust shared between herself, the model and the photographer. Beyond the window is a blurred view of the city, lost in the power of the intimacy of the dramatic pose struck by this girl, the subject of the composition.
The bold and revolutionary scene transcends time and could be the work of a twenty-first-century fashion photographer, given the touches of modernity that can be detected. Yet, surprisingly, it was created over years ago. The photographer was Lady Clementina Hawarden. The model, one of her daughters. The location, the first floor of their elegant Kensington home, the makeshift studio that Hawarden had set up.
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. Most of her biographical detai
Lady Clementina Hawarden – An Introduction (from the V&A Website)
Lady Hawarden is an enigmatic figure – much of her life remains a mystery. Most of what we do know about Hawarden has been pieced together from her photographs. She was born Clementina Elphinstone Fleming on 1 June , in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow. Her father, Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, was well-known for his part in the Venezuelan and Colombian wars of liberation (about – 25). Little is known about her Spanish mother, Catalina Paulina Alessandro, an 'exotic beauty' 26 years younger than her husband.
Clementina married Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, in and lived in London until , 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 effect) around the Dundrum estate.
Hawarden was absorbed in motherhood, having ten children – two boys and eight girls – and yet she found time to be a prolific photographer. In the family moved back to London, where Hawarden began to photograph her daughters, first makin
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