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Sarah Angelina Acland
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Early 20th-century colour self-portrait photograph of Sarah Angelina Acland.
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| Born | 26 June 1849 Broad Street, Oxford, England
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| Died | 2 December 1930 (aged 81) Park Town, Oxford, England
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| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for | Early colour photography |
| Parent(s) | Sir Henry Acland and Sarah Acland (nee Cotton) |
Sarah Angelina "Angie" Acland (born June 26, 1849 – died December 2, 1930) was an English photographer. She was famous for taking pictures of people. She was also a pioneer in colour photography. People at the time said she helped make colour photography popular for travelers. She did this with photos she took in Gibraltar in 1903 and 1904.
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Her Life and Family
Sarah Acland was the daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland. He was a professor of medicine at Oxford University. Her mother was also named Sarah Acland. The Acland Hospital in Oxford was named after her mother. Sarah lived with her parents at 40–41 Broad Street in Oxford.
Early Life and Influences
When Sarah was a child, she was photographed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. You might know him better as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. She was photographed with her friend Ina Liddell. Ina was the sister of Alice Liddell, who inspired Carroll's famous character.
At age five, Sarah helped lay the foundation stone for the Oxford University Museum. She presented a special tool to the Chancellor of Oxford University. The famous art critic John Ruskin taught her art. She also knew many artists from the Pre-Raphaelites group. She even helped Dante Gabriel Rossetti paint murals at the Oxford Union.
Becoming a Photographer
When Sarah was 19, she met the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Cameron's work inspired Sarah. Sarah started taking her own photos of people and landscapes. For example, she took a picture of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone when he visited Oxford.
After her mother passed away in 1878, Sarah took care of her father. She lived with him in their family home until he died in 1900. In 1885, she helped set up a special shelter for taxi drivers in Broad Street. It stayed there until 1912.
Pioneering Colour Photography
Sarah Acland began trying out colour photography in 1899. She used early methods like the Ives Kromskop and Sanger Shepherd processes. These methods involved taking three separate photos. Each photo used a different colour filter: red, green, or blue.
In 1903, Sarah visited her brother, Admiral Acland, in Gibraltar. She took many photos there. She captured views of Europa Point, looking from Europe towards Africa. She also photographed plants at her brother's home, The Mount. Another person she photographed was Colonel William Willoughby Cole Verner, an author and bird expert.
In 1904, she showed 33 of her colour prints at an exhibition. The exhibition was held by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Her collection was called The Home of the Osprey, Gibraltar.
Later, Sarah used the Autochrome process. This was a new method introduced by the Lumiere brothers in 1907. After her father died, Sarah lived in Park Town in North Oxford. She took many colour photos there until she passed away in 1930. She also traveled to the island of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean. She stayed at Reid's Hotel and took many pictures there.
Sarah Acland became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1900. She was also made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1905. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Sarah never married. In 1901, she moved to Clevedon House in Park Town, Oxford. She died there in 1930. A special blue plaque was placed on her house on July 24, 2016. This plaque honors important people who lived there.
Her Legacy
Today, many of Sarah Acland's photographs are kept at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. The Bodleian Library in Oxford also has records of her photo albums and papers. These documents, along with her father's, date back to the late 1800s.
See also
- E. J. Bowen, a chemist who later lived in Sarah Acland's house in Park Town, Oxford
- List of women photographers
