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Jessica Hromas
Maria Polly Cutmore, 2021
Portrait, pigment print on Hahnemühle photorag metallic paper
Purchased 2022
Michael Riley
Maria, 1986 (printed 2013)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
Now and then
Polly Cutmore
Magazine article, 2023
Photographed 35 years apart, these two portraits offer both a timeline of, and thematic thread for, Maria (Polly) Cutmore’s life – from a young woman to a respected Gomeroi Elder.
Freeman Brothers after Edwin Dalton
Maria Windeyer, c. 1865-1868
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on brown paper studio folder
Gift of J.B. Windeyer 2018
Robert Rooney
Maria Kozic and Philip Brophy 1, 1981, 1981 (printed 2012)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
![Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]](/files/a/0/3/f/i16150-sl.jpg "Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]")
![Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]](/files/a/0/3/f/i16150-ths.jpg "Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling]")
an unknown artist
Maria Dowling and her children Leura, Bessie, Selina, Jane, Jack, Ben and Joe Dowling [Selina Dowling, Jane Dowling, Maria Jane Dowling (née Ware), John Ware Dowling, Joseph Dowling, Benjamin Dowling, Elizabeth (Bessie) Dowling, Leura Dowling], c. 1859
Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
an unknown artist
Maria Windeyer, c. 1860s
Portrait, albumen photograph, hand coloured
Gift of Joanna Russell Maher (née Windeyer) 2018
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-sl.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
![A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]](/files/3/5/d/7/i13472-ths.jpg "A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri]")
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
A Prima Donna [Maria Palmieri], 1874
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
an unknown artist
Maria Jane Dowling, c. 1862
Portrait, ambrotype
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Maria Brownrigg
An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens, 1857
Portrait, watercolour and collage on paper
Purchased 2017
Batchelder & O'Neill
Lady Barkly, 1863
Portrait, albumen silver carte de visite on card
Purchased 2014
Samuel Metford
MacKenzie family silhouette, 1846
Portrait, brush and ink, pen and ink, stencil cut-out with watercolour highlights on paper
Gift of the Estate of Nancy Wiseman 2007
Maria Windeyer
Biography
Maria Windeyer (née Camfield, 1795–1878), landowner, emigrated to New South Wales in 1835 with her husband Richard, a barrister, and their infant son, William Charles.
2 portraits in the collection
Henry Mundy
Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2015
Louise Hearman
Barry Jones, 2020
Portrait, oil on masonite
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC 2022
Lady Anne Maria Barkly
Biography
Anne Maria Barkly (1838-1932) was the second wife of Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria from December 1856 to September 1863.
1 portrait in the collection