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Joshua Smith The late matron Elizabeth Hunter, MBE, at the request of the doctors of the Waverley War Memorial Hospital

oil on canvas

108 x 90 cm

This portrait by Joshua Smith of Elizabeth (Lila) Hunter (1871-1948) is in the collection of the War Memorial Hospital in the Sydney suburb of Waverley. The painting was commissioned by the hospital’s doctors to mark Hunter’s retirement as matron; she died soon after, in December 1948.