A rare opportunity to own works by famed portrait photographer Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) presents itself on March 16 at Bonhams in London.
 This Hawarden photograph sold for £2,280 ($3,599) in 2001 |
The majority of her work is housed at London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, yet some 37 photographs will be up for grabs at the sale.
Privately owned photographs by Hawarden seldom come up for auction - further adding to the excitement of the sale. A single print, produced in the early 1860s, sold for £2,280 ($3,599) at Sotheby's in 2001.
The albumen prints of her three eldest daughters, along with two of her pencil sketches and a further 15 albumen works, many of which may have also been produced by Hawarden, will carry a £150,000 ($237,126) high estimate when they auction in a single lot.
"The sale of this exceptional collection by one of the most important and influential Victorian fine art photographers is a rare event in this market," says the auction house.
 Hawarden’s three eldest daughters posed for the photographs in the collection |
Most of the photographs are distinct from those prints housed at the V&A. The photographs are thought to have once been housed together in an album, possibly belonging to a family member.
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