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Bungaree, Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe, N S Wales

c. 1830
Charles Rodius

lithograph on paper (sheet: 29.5 cm x 22.7 cm)
Bungaree, Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe, N S Wales


Purchased 2018

The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. Works of art from the collection are reproduced as per the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). The use of images of works from the collection may be restricted under the Act. Requests for a reproduction of a work of art can be made through a Reproduction request. For further information please contact NPG Copyright.
2018.18
Currently not on display
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Artist and subject

Charles Rodius (age 28 in 1830)

Bungaree (age 55 in 1830)

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1. Self portrait, c. 1849 Charles Rodius. 2. Bungaree, late chief of the Broken Bay tribe, Sydney, 1836 William Fernyhough. 3. Vue de George’s Street à Sydney, 1833 Alexis Nicholas Nöel after Louis Auguste de Sainson. 4. Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt, 1846 Charles Rodius.

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Previous exhibition, 2012

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
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