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Charles Pickering was commissioned to photograph public works for the government architect James Barnet in 1870. The photographs themselves were intended for display at the London Exhibition of 1873; Pickering was previously engaged as the official photographer to the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870. Photographers such as Charles Nettleton and the firm of Cox & Luckin were given similiar commissions in Melbourne as photography played an increasingly important role in the work of government departments. (The collection is on the State Libray of N.S.W. database. This database has a facility to view photographs in a high quality resolution which is really the best way to view the photographs - because of size constraints I will post a link to the high resolution version beneath each photograph).

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Born into New York society, Constance Whitney Warren (1888-1948) became a sculptor specializing in Western American subjects. Count Guy De Lasteyrie was a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette. Their engagement was announced in October, 1912. Here's the New York Times account of their wedding, in December, 1912. In 1925, one of Warren's best-known works, a life-sized equestrian sculpture called The Texas Cowboy, was installed on the grounds of the state capitol building in Austin. After a decade or so of success as an artist, during which time she completed about 100 works, Constance Warren suffered a mental breakdown and was committed to an institution, where she remained for the final 18 years of her life. I've been unable to find out if the marriage of Constance Warren and the Comte produced children, or what became of Guy De Lasteyrie. A brief biography of Constance Warren begins on this web page maintained by the University of North Texas.

Here is some info on the Count's family: en.festival-vezere.com/index.asp?ID=411

whyaduck: Thanks for your additional information on Constance Warren. We'll add the information to the source data and reload the description.

I started entries for them in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Whitney_Warren en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Guy_de_Lasteyrie