3-100-752 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

J. Russell Lowell (from life), c1880. Henry Herschel Hay Cameron probably photographed James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) between 1880 and 1885, when the American poet was an ambassador to the U.K., Court of St. James. Lowell visited Tennyson in March 1880, when Tennyson was staying at his London home in Eaton Place. From "Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron" [London: 1893]