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Carl Kahler

Carl Kahler was born in Austria and trained in Munich, Paris and Italy, where he won several important prizes.

2 portraits in the collection

The Derby Day at Flemington, c. 1890

Purchased 2001

The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day, c. 1889

Purchased 2009

Carl Cooper

Carl Cooper (1912-1966), ceramic decorator, contracted poliomyelitis in his twenties.

1 portrait in the collection

Carl Cooper, 1945-1946

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Bequest of Alan Boxer 2014

Untitled, 2013

Daniel Solander

Daniel Solander (1733-1782), naturalist, was a student of Carl Linnaeus, the Swede who devised and systemised the classification of plants and animals used today.

3 portraits in the collection

Banksia and grevillea

Portraits can render honour to remarkable men and women, but there are other ways.

Mysterious eyes

Boyd’s self-portrait at age 25 is joined by his equally emotive portraits of those around him.

Charina Oeser

Charina Forge (now Oeser) studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the early 1960s.

1 portrait in the collection

Dymphna Clark, 1991

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005

Dr Solander, 1772

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Dymphna Clark

Dymphna Clark (1916-2000), linguist, translator, chatelaine and matriarch, was born Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx.

1 portrait in the collection

Joseph Banks and Dr Solander, 1778

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010

Terry Clune

Terry Clune (b. 1932), gallerist, established Terry Clune Galleries with Frank MacDonald at 59 McLeay Street Potts Point in 1957.

1 portrait in the collection

The art of dress

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.