Daniel Meyer Altson, the younger brother of Aby Altson, studied at the Melbourne gallery’s art school from 1894-1902. His oil sketch of a horse’s head, presumably after the pre-Felton collection’s plaster cast from the Elgin marbles original, earnt him first prize for a work after the antique, in 1899.

In 1902, he won the NGV Travelling Scholarship and went to Paris, painting Circe (NGV 1906) and a copy supposedly after van Dyck (also in the NGV) in fulfilment of the conditions of the scholarship: neither of these works is catalogued here, given that they are Felton-era acquisitions.

Several of his later portraits, of himself and others, are also in the NGV. From 1925, he lived in London.

The last photograph is of when it was framed. The outer frame was damaged and hence discarded.

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