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Aaron Flegeltaub
The Payne family, 1888-1889
Portrait, albumen photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John McPhee 2018
Daniel Byrne
Portrait of Joshua Payne Esq., 1840
Portrait, watercolour and gouache on ivory in leather bound case
Purchased 2009
Hugh Ramsay
Portrait sketch of Nellie Melba, 1902
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Mitchell Family and the Fullerton Family 2000
an unknown artist
Dame Nellie Melba,
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Ernest Walter Histed
Nellie Melba, 1898
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Walery
Dame Nellie Melba, c. 1890
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Rupert Bunny
Dame Nellie Melba, c. 1901
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Aime Dupont
Dame Nellie Melba, n.d.
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Joshua Payne
Biography
Joshua Payne (1810–1889), engraver and die-sinker, arrived in Adelaide around 1849 and was soon after employed by the Adelaide Assay Office.
1 portrait in the collection
Harold Cazneaux
Madame Melba, 1922
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Arthur Horner
Great stylists: Caruso, Melba, Pavarotti, Bonynge and Sutherland, 1983
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Eric Harding and Athol Hawke 2002
Dame Nellie Melba GBE
Biography
Dame Nellie Melba GBE (1861–1931), world-renowned soprano, was born Helen Porter Mitchell in Melbourne.
8 portraits in the collection
Howard Barron
Florence Austral, c. 1930
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the University of Newcastle (Australia) 2007
Karin Catt
Rachel Griffiths, 2002 (printed 2004)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Rupert Bunny
Self portrait with scarf, c. 1930s
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Philip Bacon AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jozef Vissel
Sir Robert Helpmann, c. 1965 (printed 2015)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jozef Vissel 2015