Barbara Roberts writes:
My Australian cousins have two family portraits but don’t know who the subjects are! I am not sure whether the pictures are paintings or, as I suspect, photographs which have been painted over. Neither bear the date or the sitter’s name, but if you could provide an accurate date range it might help us to identify them. My cousins’ grandmother, Mary Ann (Pollie) Macmillan, née Whaite (1862-1944), emigrated to Australia in 1889 with her cousin, Emma Tyrrell (1831-89), and we believe the portraits came over with them. If so, the couple depicted could be
