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Minna Keene (1861–1943): Pictorial Portraitist

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Fruit and Sunlight

Gossips

Fenn Lancaster

Branch of Medlars (Fruit)

The Babe

Ploughing

A Little Canadian Girl

A Study of Trees

Madame Jornaillion

Motherhood

Pomegranates

Lady Gladstone

The Bunch of Grapes

The Late Captain Scott

Miss Francis Botha

A Malay Laundry

A cottage Interior

A Settler

Basuto Girl

A Boer Boy

Preparing for Christmas

Breaking Flax

The Sun-Hat

A Daughter of Eve

During the 1900s women became increasingly active in pictorial portraiture. Minna Keene (1861–1943) was one of the most accomplished practitioners of the genre. Her photographs were regularly seen in the popular photographic journals, as well as in several solo exhibitions. Read more of this post

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Acland Images

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Images for the news release “Sarah Angelina Acland re-discovered as one of the pioneers of colour photography”.

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