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William Fernyhough
Punch, wife of Cullabaa, Broken Bay tribe, 1836
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Robert Edwards AO 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Phil (Phil May), 1895
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
The Sculling Match at Sydney for the Championship of the World, 1877
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2015
Percy Leason
Self portrait, c. 1930
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Anton Cook 2009
G. H. Dancey
Barton and Watson, 1902
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Purchased 2012
Frank Hinder
Mungo MacCallum, press gallery cricket, 1973
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Enid Hawkins 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co
Nicholas Chevalier, c. 1867
Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Helen Edwards
The Seekers reunite 50 years on, 2011
Portrait, synthetic polymer on linen
Gift of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sucker Punch
Magazine article by Coby Edgar, 2025
Coby Edgar reflects on the artist Joan Ross, whose practice probes the ongoing consequences of colonisation, climate change and consumerism in Australia.
G. H. Dancey
Biography
George Henry Dancey began his career as a stained glass designer in the UK and Australia, but ended it as the chief cartoonist for Melbourne Punch over 23 years to 1919..
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas Chevalier
Biography
Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) was a Russian-born artist who came to the Victorian goldfields in 1855 and stayed in the colony as a cartoonist for Punch.
1 portrait in the collection
W.A. Bowring
Biography
Walter Bowring, born and educated in Auckland, contributed cartoons to the New Zealand observer and The weekly press, exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts and studied with Orpen and John in London, where he contributed to Punch, before arriving in Sydney in 1925.
3 portraits in the collection
S Calvert
Biography
Samuel Calvert studied in his native London with his father, engraver Edward Calvert, before emigrating to Australia in 1848.
1 portrait in the collection
Arthur Horner
Biography
Arthur Horner was born in Malvern, Victoria, and attended Sydney High School and the National Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Percy Spence
Biography
Percy Spence, born in Balmain, grew up in Fiji and began art classes in Sydney in about 1888.
1 portrait in the collection
Phil May
Biography
Phil May (1864–1903), cartoonist, was born in Leeds and educated there before his family’s financial circumstances saw him leave school and start work at age thirteen.
1 portrait in the collection