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Samuel Shelley
Biography
Samuel Shelley entered the Royal Academy Schools as a seventeen year-old in 1774 and exhibited at the Academy regularly from this time until 1804.
2 portraits in the collection
Penny Tweedie
Shelley Reys, c. 2000
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co
Sir Saul Samuel, c. 1870
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased 2014
Maurice Felton
Miss Frances Samuel, 1840
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2011
James Heath after Samuel Shelley
Portrait of Captain Edward Riou, 1801
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
Henry Seppings-Wright, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine
Sammy (Samuel Wood), 1892
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2010
John Sherwin after Samuel Shelley
Lieutenant Watts, 1789
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
W Sherwin after S Shelley
Lieutenant Shortland, published 1789
Portrait, engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
Samuel Bellin after Francis Grant
Charles Joseph La Trobe, c. 1857
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2010
Samuel Woolf
Sir Sidney Kidman, 1932
Portrait, charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper
Purchased 2009
Samuel Hodge
Murray Bartlett, 2014
Portrait, pigment photographic print
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2026
Samuel Hodge
Romance Was Born, 2025
Portrait, photographic installation, collaged pigment prints, wallpaper
Commissioned with funds provided by Hayley Baillie 2025
an unknown artist
First High Court of Australia, c. 1903
Portrait, albumen silver photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Henry Samuel Sadd
Matthew Burnett, c. 1865
Portrait, steel engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Henry Samuel Sadd, Fergusson & Mitchell, Melbourne after Thomas Adams Hill
William John Wills, 2nd in command of the Victorian Expedition, 1860-1861
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2007