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Robert McFarlane
Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, River Kwai, Thailand, c. 1987 (printed 2003)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Louis Kahan AO
Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, c. 1988
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Colonel Edward (Weary) Dunlop AC CMG OBE
Biography
Sir Edward (‘Weary’) Dunlop AC CMG OBE (1907–1993) was a surgeon, who as a prisoner-of-war on the infamous Burma Railway used his medical skills to save the lives of a great number of allied POWs.
2 portraits in the collection
Bryan Westwood
Portrait of Brian Dunlop, c. 1972
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on cardboard
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Edward Paine Butler, c. 1845
Portrait, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper
Purchased 2009
W B McInnes
Edward Knox, c. 1927-1929
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs Caroline Philippa Parker 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Edward Henty, late 19th century
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tim Clark 2018
![A Commissioner of Customs "Faithful to Francis" [The Hon. Edward Cohen M.L.A.]](/files/3/4/1/8/i9668-sl.jpg "A Commissioner of Customs \"Faithful to Francis\" [The Hon. Edward Cohen M.L.A.]")
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Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
A Commissioner of Customs "Faithful to Francis" [The Hon. Edward Cohen M.L.A.], 1874
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Sir William Dobell OBE
Dr Edward MacMahon, 1959
Portrait, oil on masonite
Gift of the MacMahon family in affectionate memory of Edward MacMahon and William Dobell 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Edward Knox, c. 1855
Portrait, daguerreotype
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Peter Halliday in memory of Norah Knox 2010
Leslie Bowles
Sir Edward Holden, 1945
Portrait, cast bronze on granite base
Bequest of John J Holden 2005
Henry King
Edward Hargraves, c. 1884
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
James Heath after Samuel Shelley
Portrait of Captain Edward Riou, 1801
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Julia Margaret Cameron
Edward John Eyre, 1867
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on paper
Presented by Sir Roy Strong and the late Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman in memory of their friendship with Gordon Darling and Marilyn Darling 2006
Joseph Brown after Henry Hering
Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica, 1867
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2003
H Parker Rolfe
Syd Gregory (Sydney Edward Gregory, member of the 1896 Australian Cricket Team), 1896
Portrait, albumen photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2014