Artist. Photographed in the late 1860s or early 1870s as a young girl, with Francis Dart Fenton, her father. She was playing the violin in the Auckland Choral Society Society Orchestra by 1884, as a young woman. She exhibited flower studies with Auckland Society of Arts, 1886-1914; with the Art Students Association, 1886; with New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 1889-1890 'Fifteen studies in colour of New Zealand flora'; and with New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, 1893. Moved to Helensville, 1889. See obituary - Auckland Star, 26 August 1936, page 22.
Fenton, Edith, 1861-1936
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Mantell album 1
Date: 1860 - 1880
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant:Family photograph albums
By: Roberts, F J, active 1870s?; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906
Reference: PA1-o-326
Description: Album of cartes de visite of New Zealanders, and English people relating to Walter Mantell, most of whom are fully identified. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with heavily embossed brown leather cover, brass clasps; 15.5 x 13.0 cm
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Montage of portraits featuring members of the 1884 Orchestra of the Auckland Choral Soc...
Date: 1884
From: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district
By: Fenton, Roger Edward, 1865-1937
Reference: 1/1-001194-G
Description: Montage of photographic portraits depicting members of the 1884 Orchestra of the Auckland Choral Society. Top row, from left to right: F Innes, A Elliott. Second row from the top, from left to right: J H Burnett, J A Lyell, J Impey, J C Clough, S Jackson, J Mumford, F Ellis. Third row from the top, from left to right: M P Westpfhal, G T Stevens, F D Fenton (Vice President), T H White, J Hemus, E Fenton, A Elliott, E Harding. Fourth row from the top, from left to right: K Stevens, A Stevens, C Hemus, Herr Carl Schmitt CBCI (Conductor), R J Yates, F Prime, F Marbrook. Fifth row from the top, from left to right: T W Killip, J F W Cook, H F Windsor, F H Edger, J McKenzie, R Fenton, F Veale. Bottom row, from left: C M Borthwick, J W Craig, E Hammond, J B Mell, H O Brown, R Craig and F Hunter. Photographs taken by the studio of Hemus & Hanna. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative