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Harold Cazneaux
Ethel Turner, 1928
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Richard King 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ethel Turner
Biography
Ethel Turner (1870-1958), writer, came to Australia with her twice-widowed mother at the age of nine.
1 portrait in the collection
G.W. Lawrie
Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia, c. 1912
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
G.W. Lawrie
Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia, c. 1912
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011
an unknown artist
Margaret Robertson, c. 1855
Portrait, daguerreotype, hand coloured
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Martha Mary Robertson with her child William St Leonards Robertson, c. 1865
Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Margaret Robertson, c. 1852
Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
William Robertson jnr, c. 1852
Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype, hand coloured with case
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Maie Casey, 1953
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2016
an unknown artist
William St Leonards Robertson, c. 1865
Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
William Robertson, c. 1852
Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype, hand coloured with case
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charles Turner after Sir George Hayter
The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne, 1839
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Ethel Anderson
Biography
Ethel Anderson (née Mason, 1883-1958), writer and artist, was an important figure in the Sydney modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s.
2 portraits in the collection
Charles Turner after Sir Thomas Lawrence
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1827
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Charles Turner
Biography
Charles Turner (1773-1851), engraver, was born in Oxfordshire and moved to London at the end of the 1780s.
2 portraits in the collection
Moving in creative circles
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008
Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture.