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Sir John W. Downer KCMG, KC
Biography
Sir J.W. Downer was a delegate from South Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
2 portraits in the collection
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-sl.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
![John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]](/files/e/4/6/6/i14565-ths.jpg "John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns]")
Edouard Gatel
John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns], 1866
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
an unknown artist
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891, 1891
Portrait, engravings on paper
Purchased 2009
John Williams
John Laws, 1981
Portrait, montage of gelatin silver photographs
Purchased 1999
John Buchanan Smith
John Roper, 1860s
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Sandefur 2019
The Graphic
The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney, 1884
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
John Elliott
John Williamson, Springbrook, Qld, 2004
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
John Spooner
John Cargher holding a long play record, c. 1986
Portrait, pen and ink and brush and ink on paper laid on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
an unknown artist
John Burton, 1951
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr and Mrs John Burton 2007
Power suits
The fit within the frame
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Achille Simonetti
John Fairfax, 1875
Portrait, carrara marble on scagliola column
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charles Summers
John Fairfax, 1873
Portrait, carrara marble
Gift of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
John Thomson after William Derby
Captain Sir John Franklin, 1830
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
John Brack
Sketch for portrait of John Perceval, c. 1962
Portrait, charcoal pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Helen Brack 2012
John Cochran
Reverend John West, Sydney., n.d.
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
John Brack
Sketch for portrait of John Perceval, c. 1962
Portrait, charcoal on Paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Helen Brack 2012