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Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke)
Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke)
Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke)
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Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke), n.d.

Portrait, watercolour on card

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke
Elliott and Fry

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, 1870

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Statesmen No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Statesmen No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Statesmen No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine

Statesmen No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor of liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe), 1869

Portrait, colour lithograph on paper

Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2005

Statesmen, No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England"  (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Statesmen, No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England"  (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Statesmen, No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England"  (Viscount Robert Lowe)
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine

Statesmen, No. 4 "An enemy to democracy, yet a professor liberal principles, which tend to democracy; the combination will one day make him Prime Minister of England" (Viscount Robert Lowe), 1869

Portrait, chromolithograph on paper

Purchased 2013

Allan Lowe
Allan Lowe
Allan Lowe
Reshid Bey

Allan Lowe, c. 1955

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Alan Lowe and Marian Lowe 2000

Lowe Kong Meng
Lowe Kong Meng
Lowe Kong Meng
Ludwig Lang after Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co

Lowe Kong Meng, c. 1887

Portrait, tinted lithograph on paper

Purchased 2015

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke

Biography

Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892), politician, studied and tutored in law at Oxford before coming to Australia in 1842.

4 portraits in the collection

Lowe Kong Meng
Lowe Kong Meng
Lowe Kong Meng
Pamela See

Lowe Kong Meng, 2017

Portrait, papercut silhouette drawing

Purchased 2019

Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Arts Festival
Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Arts Festival
Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Arts Festival
Robert McFarlane

Sidney Nolan and Robert Helpmann at Bonython Gallery, Adelaide Arts Festival, c. 1964 (printed 2015)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Robert Hunter, July 1978
Robert Hunter, July 1978
Robert Hunter, July 1978
Robert Rooney

Robert Hunter, July 1978, 1978 (printed 2012)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix
Robert Hannaford AM

Robert Dessaix, 1998

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Robert Dessaix 2000
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart)
Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart)
Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart)
Robert Dunkarton after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart), 1808

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

James Robert Millar Robertson
James Robert Millar Robertson
James Robert Millar Robertson
W.A. Bowring

James Robert Millar Robertson, 1926

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of the descendants of James Robert Millar Robertson 2011

Sir Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Menzies
Louis Kahan AO

Sir Robert Menzies, c. 1952

Portrait, fibre-tipped pen and ink on paper

Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978
Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978
Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978
Robert Rooney

Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978, 1978 (printed 2012)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Sir Robert Garran
Sir Robert Garran
Sir Robert Garran
Bernard Hall

Sir Robert Garran, 1922

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of John Garran 2019. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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