Framed Photoceramic - Martha Barnard (nee Minion)

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Brown wooden frame with glass front.
Underneath the glass is a sepia coloured ceramic of a woman portraiture (head & shoulders).

Historical information

Mrs G W Barnard ( nee Martha Minion ) is wife of George William Barnard.

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cwa-org-124-2025.197

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vintage photo on porcelain is commonly referred to as a photoceramic portrait, according to Coyle Studios. It's also sometimes called a porcelain enamel portrait or ceramic picture. These portraits were popular memorial pieces, created for both living and deceased individuals and were often highly collectible. The first photoceramic method, patented in 1854 by Bulot and Cattin, involved using a collodion process to transfer an image onto surfaces like enamel or porcelain before firing it in a kiln.

Contextual Information

When MARTHA MINION was born in 1844, in Western Australia, her father, William Minion, was 34 and her mother, Martha Roach, was 35.

She married GEORGE WILLIAM BARNARD on 10 August 1870, in Busselton, Western Australia.
They were the parents of at least two sons.
Martha was George's first wife.
She died on 16 June 1887, in Busselton, Western Australia, at the age of 43, and was buried in Busselton Cemetery, Yalyalup, Western Australia.

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Busselton Historical Society

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