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Minnie Walton

Minnie Walton

Minnie Walton

Minnie Walton, c. 1874

Fradelle & Marshall

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso)

Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso)

Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso)

Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso), 1876

Lock & Whitfield, London

Portrait, albumen photograph on card

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Dr Alison Inglis, AM, 2023 Dena Kahan

School portraits

About Face article

Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.

Miles from nowhere, 2008 (printed 2014) from the Games of consequence series 2008 Polixeni Papapetrou

Mother’s muse

Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2020

Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.

Virginia Woolf, 1902 George Charles Beresford

Love my way

Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2022

Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer

Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE

Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (1915–2009), aviatrix, decided she wanted to be a pilot when, at age eight, she saw a plane make an emergency landing on a beach near her home.

2 portraits in the collection

Nancy Bird Walton

Nancy Bird Walton part 1

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 1977

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer

Nancy Bird Walton part 2

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 1977

Self-portrait in white jacket , 1901-02 Hugh Ramsay

Wunderkind lost

Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2021

Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.

Nancy Bird Walton

Nancy Bird Walton

Nancy Bird Walton

Nancy Bird Walton, c. 1973

Judy Cassab AO CBE

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer

Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer, 2003

Danelle Bergstrom

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004

Nancy Bird Walton, c. 1938

The aviatrix

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009

Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE

Alfred Hill

Alfred Hill

Alfred Hill

Alfred Hill, c. 1911-1913

May and Mina Moore photographic studio, Annie May Moore, Minnie Louise Moore

Portrait, photograph on paper on card mounted on canvas

Gift of Catherine Dwyer 2021

Lady Jane Grey, c.1590-1600 (also known as The ‘Streatham’ portrait) Artist unknown

The Royal she

Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2019

Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

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Fradelle & Marshall

Fradelle & Marshall was a photographic and miniature-painting partnership between Albert Eugene Fradelle & William Shury Marshall, who maintained two studios in Regent Street, Westminster, London from 1872 to 1876.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait 32

June - August 2009

This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.

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