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Professor George Dracoulis

1996

Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Dianne Fogwell

Comte de Lacepede

c. 1830

an unknown artist

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock

1971

Andrew Sibley

Professor Carrick Chambers AM

1985

Michael Meszaros

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock

1971

Andrew Sibley

NC

The Home of the Blizzard: being the story of the Australasian Antarctic…

Sir Douglas Mawson Kt OBE FRS, Heinemann, London

Sir Laurence Hartnett

1984

Reshid Bey

Walter A Gale

1917

Boz

Sir David (Albert Cherbury) Rivett KCMG FRS

1985

Andor Meszaros

NC

Sir Gustav Nossal

1999

Peter Churcher

Sir Mark Oliphant

late 1960s

Louis Kahan AO

Sir Mark Oliphant

1939

Bassano Ltd

Anna Frances Walker

c. 1865

George Perry

Study for portrait of Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE

2007

Jude Rae

Francis Houssemayne de Boulay

n.d.

J Fisher

Sir Macfarlane Burnet

late 1970s

Louis Kahan AO

Self portrait

1976 (printed 2005)

David Malin

Sir John 'Bawra' Higgins

1922

Tom Glover

Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA

1985

Andor Meszaros

Professor David of Antarctic Expedition

c. 1910

an unknown artist

Album of cartes de visite and cabinet card photograph including a portrait…

Various

Sir Macfarlane Burnet

late 1960s

Louis Kahan AO

Study for portrait of Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE

2007

Jude Rae

Study for portrait of Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE

2007

Jude Rae

Eccleston Du Faur

1911

Violet Teague

Laurie Chow, engineer, Glebe Island Bridge, Sydney

1995 (printed 2000)

David Moore

Dr Solander

1772

an unknown artist

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

n.d.

Max Dupain OBE

Geoffroy St Hilaire

c. 1845

Formentin

Basil Hetzel

2007-2008

Mark Kimber

Rene Primevere Lesson

c. 1830

Ambroise Tardieu

Lord Florey

c. 1966

Louis Kahan AO

Study for commissioned portrait, "Equation of life - a portrait of Professor…

Evert Ploeg

Joseph Dalton Hooker

c. 1880s

an unknown artist

The Simpling Macaroni (Dr Daniel Solander)

1772

Matthias Darly

William John Wills

c. 1861

De Gruchy & Leigh

Sir Ernest Fisk

n.d. (after 1937)

an unknown artist

Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk

1943-1944

Charles Wheeler

Professor Harry Messel

1973

Louis Kahan AO

The Fly Catching Macaroni (Sir Joseph Banks)

1772

Matthias Darly

Thomas Pennant

c. 1790

William Ridley

Sir Joseph Banks

1810

William Evans, Anthony Cardon after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Alexander MacLeay

c. 1845

Charles Fox after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Jacques Miller

2002

Peter Wegner

Sir Gustav Nossal

n.d.

Louis Kahan AO

David Warren

c. 2004

an unknown artist

Douglas Mawson

1933

Henry James Haley

Federal Statistician Knibbs

1919

David Low

William Dakin

c. 1943

Gervaise Purcell

Harry Messel

n.d.

Louis Kahan AO

Alexander Dalrymple

1809

William Daniell after George Dance

Joseph Paul Gaimard

c. 1830

De Bove

The Botanic Macaroni (Sir Joseph Banks)

1772

Matthias Darly

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert)

1895

Sir Leslie Ward, Vanity Fair Magazine

James Robert Millar Robertson

1926

W.A. Bowring

Sir Mark Oliphant

1972

Frank Hinder

Dr Phillip Law

1974

Dallas Hawes

On display: Gallery Six

Dame Jean Macnamara

c. 1930

Donovan

Study for painting commission portrait of Fiona Stanley

2010

Mary Moore

Sir John Eccles

1959

Pam MacFarlane

Professor H. Rodney Withers

2004

Jacqueline Mitelman

Professor Terence Tao

2006

Reed Hutchinson

Sir Bernard Katz

1993 (printed 2003)

Nick Sinclair

William Henry Harvey

c. 1850

Thomas Herbert Maguire

Sir Joseph Banks

1840s

C E. Wagstaff after Thomas Phillips

Jacques Miller

2012

Dave Tacon

Portrait of Dr John Bradfield

c. 1920-1924

Reginald Jerrold-Nathan

Men of the Day No.14 "A Faithful Friend, an eminent Savant, and the best…

Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine

Professor Graeme Clark

2000

Peter Wegner

Joseph Banks and Dr Solander

1778

an unknown artist

Ian Frazer

2007

Marian Drew

Sir Gustav Nossal

2004

Dean Home

François Péron

c. 1805

Conrad Westermayr after Jean Henri Cless

William Jackson Hooker

1851

Thomas Herbert Maguire

The Burke and Wills Monument

1869

Thomas Foster Chuck

Robert Brown

c. 1835

Dario Castellini after Carlo Liverati

John Gould

1849

Thomas Herbert Maguire, M & N Hanhart

Sir John Cornforth

1993 (printed 2003)

Nick Sinclair

Thomas Henry Huxley

c. 1870

Maull & Co Photographers

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller

c. 1890

Charles Troedel after Robert Wendel

Sir Lindesay Clark

1973

Clifton Pugh AO

Professor Derek Denton

2009

Janet Dawson

Professor Graeme Clark (profile)

2000

Peter Wegner

Joseph Dalton Hooker

c. 1860

Rui Hoffmann

Professor Allan Snyder

2000

David Moore

Sir Mark Oliphant

c. 1948

Lotte Meitner-Graf

TW Edgeworth David and Vilhjalmur Stefansson

1924

Annie May Moore

Men of the Day No. 57 "Old Bones" (Sir Richard Owen)

1873

an unknown artist, Vanity Fair Magazine

Sir Gustav Nossal

1979 (printed 1981)

Mark Strizic

Sir Joseph Banks

1802

William Ridley

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren

2007

Robin Sellick

Sir Macfarlane Burnet

1968

Mark Strizic

Sir Joseph Banks

1811

William Daniell after George Dance

Georg von Neumayer

c. 1860

Johnstone & Co

Douglas Frew Waterhouse

2003

Robyn Stacey

Men of the Day No.19 "A great Med'cine-Man among the Inqui-ring Redskins"…

Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine

Ludwig Becker

1861

Frederick Schoenfeld

Professor John Shine

2011

Jozef Vissel

Professor Brian Schmidt

2015

David Roberts

Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society

1812

N Schiavonetti after Thomas Phillips

Fiona Stanley

2011

Mary Moore

Dr Paul Scully-Power

2005

Evert Ploeg

Joseph Banks Esq

1774

William Dickinson after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Woburn Sheepshearing

1811

Thomas Morris, M N. Bates, Joseph C. Stadler after George Garrard

Robert Brown

1850

Thomas Herbert Maguire

Elizabeth Blackburn

2011

Hugh Hamilton

Sir Joseph Banks

c. 1788

John Raphael Smith after Sir Benjamin West

Sir Robert May AC KT

1999

Polly Borland

Tim Flannery

2006

Robert Hannaford AM

The great South Sea caterpillar transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir…

James Gillray

Sir Douglas Mawson

c. 1916

Thomson Studios

Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark

2000

Peter Wegner

William John Wills, 2nd in command of the Victorian Expedition

1860-1861

Henry Samuel Sadd, Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne after Thomas Adams Hill

Equation of a life - a portrait of Professor Derek Denton

2016

Evert Ploeg

Portrait of Dr Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster

c. 1780

Jean Francois Rigaud

Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks

c. 1814

Thomas Phillips

Sir Macfarlane Burnet

1960-1961

Sir William Dargie CBE

Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE

2007

Jude Rae

Professor Mandyam Srinivasan

2014

Sam Leach

Professor Penny Sackett, astronomer and physicist

2011

Andrew Mezei

Andy Thomas

2002

Montalbetti + Campbell

On display: Gallery Six

Michelle Simmons

2018

Selina Ou

Professor Peter Doherty

2001

Rick Amor

Tan Le

2018

John Tsiavis