Anna Zinkeisen
(1901-1976), PainterAnna Katrina Zinkeisen
Sitter in 14 portraits
Artist of 2 portraits
Portrait painter and muralist. Anna Zinkeisen won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools from Harrow School of Art, and in 1920 and 1921 received the Landseer Award. She later worked for Wedgwood as a ceramics designer. With her sister Doris, Anna painted murals for the passenger liners RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth. She later specialised in pathological and clinical drawing. During the Second World War she worked in the casualty ward at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, in the mornings and painted in a disused operating theatre in the afternoons.
by Yevonde
Vivex colour print, January 1936
On display at The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NPG P1839
by Yevonde
bromide print on velvet card mount, 1936
NPG x29817
by Yevonde
bromide print, 1936
NPG x13174
Anna Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Ballroom of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220830
Anna Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Ballroom of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220831
Anna Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Ballroom of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220840
Anna Zinkeisen working on the panels in the Ballroom of the RMS Queen Mary
by Yevonde
tri-colour separation negative, January 1936
NPG x220843
by Fred Daniels
cream-toned vintage bromide print, circa 1943
NPG x32916
by Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, late 1940s
NPG Ax39659
Anna Zinkeisen; Sally Ann Howes
by Tom Blau
modern bromide print from original negative, 1948
NPG x131949
by Barratt's Photo Press Ltd
bromide press print, October 1948
NPG x184066
Julia Heseltine; Anna Zinkeisen
by Tom Blau, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide print, 1955
NPG x135962
Related People
- Anne Grahame Johnstone (niece)
- Janet Grahame Johnstone (niece)
- Julia Heseltine (daughter)
- Doris Clare Zinkeisen (sister)
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