• Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Woman [My Ewen’s Bride (God’s Gift to Us)], 1869; albumen print; 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Jan Leonard and Jerrold A. Peil.

Five Tables of Portraits

On view this session, self-portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn, Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, Vivian Maier, Alice Hutchins, Alex Katz, and Willy Jaeckel; calculated celebrity in pictures of Sitting Bull by Andy Warhol, Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar, and the courtesans Hanaogi and Takikawa by Eizan; intimate glimpses of monastics, children, daughters-in-law (Julia Margaret Cameron’s was “god’s gift to us”), socialites, anonymous men with pipes, Chinese poets, and more!