THE LOST PORTRAIT OF BIG HEARTED SINGER CATHERINE HAYES.

THE LOST PORTRAIT OF BIG HEARTED  SINGER CATHERINE HAYES.

To mangle the words of Oscar Wilde, for an institution to lose a miniature portrait would be unfortunate…. to lose a life-sized, framed oil painting sounds more like carelessness. Catherine Hayes (1818-1861) was a celebrated, Irish born soprana who toured Australia extensively in the mid 1850s. At

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