• Title
  Millicent Preston-Stanley, Mrs Crawford Vaughan, 1950 / Mary Edwards
• Creator
  Mary Edwell-Burke, 1897-1988
• Call number
  DG 396
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 252
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  839923
• Issue Copy
  DigitisedAvailable on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 39 x 28 in. inside frame, in gilt wooden frame 50 x 41 in.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The artist Mary Edwards, also known as Mary Edwell-Burke, painted this portrait of Millicent Preston-Stanley for the Archibald Prize exhibition in 1950. Edwards later added a pair of blue spectacles to the portrait, to match those the sitter then wore. The update was made in time for the reopening of the Feminist Club on 5 August 1952 of which Mrs Preston Stanley Vaughan was the new president.
  
  The subject, Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883-1955), was a politician and feminist. She was born on 9 September 1883 in Sydney, the eldest child of Augustine Gregory Stanley, a Sydney-born grocer, and his wife Fanny Helen (nee Preston). In 1925 Preston-Stanley became the first female member of the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly, representing the Eastern Suburbs, a seat she held until 1927.Throughout her life she was involved in a number of women's organisations, such as the Feminist Club of which she was President from 1919-34 and 1952-55. She married Crawford Vaughan, a company director and former Premier of South Australia, in Sydney in 1934. She died in Sydney on 23 June 1955.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed 19 April 2012)
  '"Artist adds spectacles to a portrait for a party". The Sydney Morning Herald, August 6, 1952. p. 7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18276369
• Collection history
  The portrait was presented to the Feminist Club in 1953 to commemorate it's 39th year. References: "Sydney's Talking About", The Sydney Morning Herald, December 10, 1953, p. 9. "Presentation", Daily Mirror, December 9, 1953, p. 36.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: No reproduction without prior written approval of copyright holder
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
  Title from back of canvas
• General note
  
  The portrait was hung in the Archibald Prize in 1950.
  
  Reference:
  Faces of Australia : image, reality and the portrait / Richard Neville. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1992.
  Copy print DG 396
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated in lower left hand corner 'Mary Edwards 1950'.
• Name
  Preston-Stanley, M. (Millicent), 1883-1955
  
• Subject
  Feminists--Australia.
  Politicians--New South Wales--Portraits.
  Women--Australia--Portraits.
  Portrait painting, Australian.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  feminists
  politicians
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4375674

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