Käsebier was a pioneering pictorialist photographer who, like Cameron, created soft focus intimate portraits of women and children with a painterly, dreamlike quality that blurred the line between photography and fine art. Her use of atmospheric light and shadow to elevate her subjects to an almost allegorical status closely mirrors the ethereal mood of this Cameron portrait.

Steichen's early pictorialist portrait photography shares Cameron's commitment to soft luminous tonality and contemplative mood, treating photography as a legitimate fine art form with deeply expressive, painterly qualities. His intimate monochromatic portraits of women convey the same sense of psychological depth and elevated artistic vision seen in this work.

Rejlander was a Victorian British photographer and contemporary of Cameron who similarly championed photography as high art by creating allegorical and intimately composed portraits with strong chiaroscuro lighting and a contemplative mood. His close cropped figural studies share the same Victorian sensibility and painterly visual language present in this Cameron portrait.