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Carl Kahler
Biography
Carl Kahler was born in Austria and trained in Munich, Paris and Italy, where he won several important prizes.
2 portraits in the collection
Goupil & Cie after Carl Kahler
The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day, c. 1889
Portrait, photogravure on paper
Purchased 2009
Goupil & Cie after Carl Kahler
The Derby Day at Flemington, c. 1890
Portrait, photogravure on paper
Purchased 2001
Arthur Boyd AC OBE
Carl Cooper, 1945-1946
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on masonite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Bequest of Alan Boxer 2014
Carl Cooper
Biography
Carl Cooper (1912-1966), ceramic decorator, contracted poliomyelitis in his twenties.
1 portrait in the collection
Heide Smith
Dymphna Clark, 1991
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
an unknown artist
Dr Solander, 1772
Portrait, copper-line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
an unknown artist after Wedgewood
Joseph Banks and Dr Solander, 1778
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Daniel Solander
Biography
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
Charina Oeser
Biography
Charina Forge (now Oeser) studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the early 1960s.
1 portrait in the collection
Dymphna Clark
Biography
Dymphna Clark (1916-2000), linguist, translator, chatelaine and matriarch, was born Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx.
1 portrait in the collection
Terry Clune
Biography
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
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2023
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
Ernest Hutcheson
Biography
Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1951), pianist, composer and music teacher, started performing at the age of five.
1 portrait in the collection
Portrait Gallery benefits from generous Boxer bequest
8 April 2015
Archived media releases 2015
Canberran and modernist art collector Alan Boxer has generously bequeathed two works by artists Arthur Boyd and Jenny Sages to the National Portrait Gallery.
Sir Joseph Banks KCB
Biography
Joseph Banks KCB (1743-1820), naturalist, grew up on his father's Lincolnshire estate, Revesby, but his lifelong interest in botany developed at Eton and Oxford.
13 portraits in the collection