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Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
William Strutt
Biography
William Strutt arrived in Melbourne in 1850 having undertaken his training in art in Paris in the late 1830s.
1 portrait in the collection
Picture this...
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2003
This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.
George Rose, 1811
Giovanni Vendramini, T Cadell & W Davies after William Evans, Sir William Beechey
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
William Macleay, 1885
William Macleod after Freeman Brothers
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1799
Charles Brome after William Owen
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
William Hodges RA, 1808 (dated 1810)
William Daniell after George Dance
Portrait, etching on paper
Purchased 2010
William Westall, 1854
William Daniell after George Dance
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Sir William Gaston Walkley, 1958
William Pidgeon
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Caltex Australia Ltd 2008
Study for Portrait of W S Robinson, 1952
Sir William Dobell OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
Album of cartes de visite and cabinet cards compiled by William St Leonards Robertson, 1860s-c. 1900
Various
Portrait, 24 page brown leather bound album of 119 cartes de visite and 16 cabinet card photographs
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson, 1863
William Edward Kilburn
Portrait, carte de visite photograph on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
William, Randwick, 1975/2008
William Yang, Melody Cooper
Portrait, inkjet print, black and purple ink on paper
Purchased 2022
William in Scholar's Costume, 1984/2008
William Yang, Yensoon Tsai
Portrait, inkjet print, black and purple ink on paper
Purchased 2022
Self Portrait #5, 2008
William Yang, John Fukuda
Portrait, inkjet print, black ink on paper
Purchased 2022
The Payne family, 1888-1889
Aaron Flegeltaub
Portrait, albumen photograph on cabinet card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John McPhee 2018