Renowned Pre-Raphaelite beauty caught on camera

Original photographs of a well-known Pre-Raphaelite beauty – the muse of William Holman Hunt and the mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell – sold for £2600 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

The two albumen prints of Julia Prinsep Stephen (1846-95) had been guided at £500-800 as part of t…

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