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William Charles Windeyer aged six

1840
an unknown artist

watercolour on ivory (frame: 14.2 cm x 12.5 cm depth 2.5 cm, support: 6.5 cm x 5.5 cm)

Sir William Windeyer (1834-1897) was a politician and judge. One of the first undergraduates to study at the University of Sydney, he developed a particular interest in education and the rights of women - he was responsible for the Married Women's Property Act of 1879, and was Founding Chairman of the university's Women's College. As a young man he worked as a reporter on Henry Parkes's radical liberal newspaper Empire. Windeyer represented West Sydney in the Legislative Assembly intermittently from 1860; in 1876 and 1878-1879 he was attorney general in the Parkes-Robertson coalition. Parkes wrote in Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History (1892) that 'My friend Windeyer was a young man of high spirit, bold and decisive in the common incidents of life, with a strong capacity for public affairs. He would have made as good a soldier as he has made a sound Judge.'

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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Artist and subject

Sir William Windeyer (age 6 in 1840)

Donated by

Jim Windeyer (16 portraits)

Jennifer Lockhart (7 portraits)

James Lockhart (7 portraits)

Alison I. Lockhart (7 portraits)

Catherine M. Crouch (7 portraits)

Robert F. Windeyer (7 portraits)

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