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Edwin Dalton
Biography
Edwin Dalton was an English painter, photographer and lithographer who spent some time in North America before setting up as a portrait painter in Melbourne in 1853.
5 portraits in the collection
The First Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1859
Edwin Dalton
Portrait, composite albumen paper photograph consisting of 79 personages and a letterpress key
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Portrait of Mrs Sarah Fairfax, c. 1864
Edwin Dalton
Portrait, pastel on paper laid on canvas
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charles John Fairfax, c. 1860
Edwin Dalton
Portrait, pastel on paper laid on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
John Fairfax, c. 1860
Edwin Dalton
Portrait, pastel on paper laid on canvas
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Maria Windeyer, c. 1865-1868
Freeman Brothers after Edwin Dalton
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on brown paper studio folder
Gift of J.B. Windeyer 2018
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM
Biography
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB MD FRS (1817-1911), botanist, explorer and medical doctor, visited Australia as a member of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition of 1839 to 1843.
2 portraits in the collection
Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery
Biography
Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery was one of the names for the studio run by Edwin Dalton from 1858 until the mid 1860s.
2 portraits in the collection
Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1860
Rui Hoffmann
Portrait, lithograph on India laid paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1880s
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Lucy Escott, c. 1861
Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery
Portrait, albumen silver carte de visite, hand coloured on card
Purchased 2009
Henry Squires, c. 1861
Dalton's Royal Photographic Gallery
Portrait, albumen silver carte de visite, hand coloured on card
Purchased 2009
The Athlete
An exhibition of sporting photographs by Anderson & Low
Previous exhibition, 2000
The Athlete explores the sporting life well beyond the superficial image of the human physique 
The Fairfax Gift
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2003
This article examines the portraits gifted to the National Portrait Gallery by Fairfax Holdings in 2003.
William Pidgeon
Biography
William Edwin 'Wep' Pidgeon, cartoonist, illustrator and painter was born in Paddington and studied art at the JS Watkins School and East Sydney Technical College.
2 portraits in the collection
Maude Shipp
Biography
Maude Shipp (1895-1964), vaudevillian, debuted as ‘Little Maude Shipp, the Wonderful Baby Performer’ around May 1900, as a member of the troupe managed by her father, Edwin ‘Teddy’ Shipp (c.
1 portrait in the collection