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Frances Samuel
Biography
Frances Samuel (1818-c. 1898) was a member of one of early Sydney's most significant Jewish settler families.
1 portrait in the collection
Miss Frances Samuel, 1840
Maurice Felton
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2011
Frances Perry
Biography
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
Biography
Frances Saville (1865-1935), soprano, came to Australia from San Francisco as a small child.
1 portrait in the collection
Frances Alda
Biography
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
Frances Alda
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1937
Frances Perry, c. 1863
Batchelder & O'Neill
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite
Purchased 2012
Frances Saville, 1903
Reutlinger Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Frances Alda, 1912
Herman Mishkin
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2007
Frances Alda, 1918
Herman Mishkin
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roger Neill 2006
Frances (Fanny) Cato, 1933
an unknown artist
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Bewitching
Magazine article by Roger Neill, 2006
Roger Neill delves into the life of a lesser-known Australian diva, Frances Alda.
Samuel Woolf
Biography
Samuel Johnson Woolf, American painter, lithographer and illustrator, was born in New York City and named after the English essayist Samuel Johnson.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Samuel Wilson
Biography
Sir Samuel Wilson was elected to the British House of Commons in 1886.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Bellin
Biography
Samuel Bellin, printmaker and engraver, trained in England under James Basire the Younger before travelling to Rome, where he honed his drafting skills and made the acquaintance of JMW Turner and other artists.
2 portraits in the collection
Samuel Shelley
Biography
Samuel Shelley entered the Royal Academy Schools as a seventeen year-old in 1774 and exhibited at the Academy regularly from this time until 1804.
2 portraits in the collection