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Frances (Fanny) Cato, 1933

Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Frederick Cato, 1932

Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Miss Frances Samuel, 1840

Purchased 2011

Frances Perry, c. 1863

Purchased 2012

Frances Saville, 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Frances Alda, 1912

Purchased 2007

Frances Alda, 1918

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roger Neill 2006

Frederick Cato

Frederick Cato (1858-1935), grocer and philanthropist, was born in a tent at Pleasant Creek (Stawell), to the Scottish wife of an English gold miner.

1 portrait in the collection

Anna Frances Walker, c. 1865

Purchased 2022

Frances Samuel

Frances Samuel (1818-c. 1898) was a member of one of early Sydney's most significant Jewish settler families.

1 portrait in the collection

Frances Perry

Frances Perry (1815-1892) met Charles Perry through her brother, a student at Cambridge, and after they married, the couple lived at St Paul’s Cambridge, where he was vicar, for six years.

1 portrait in the collection

Frances Saville

Frances Saville (1865-1935), soprano, came to Australia from San Francisco as a small child.

1 portrait in the collection

Frances Alda

Frances Alda (1879–1952) was one of the world's greatest sopranos. Born Fanny Jane Davis in Christchurch, New Zealand, which claims her as a prominent expatriate, she was raised in Melbourne, where she began singing operetta in 1897.

2 portraits in the collection

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1827

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Michael Leunig, 2004

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Bewitching

Roger Neill delves into the life of a lesser-known Australian diva, Frances Alda.