The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Artist Henry Mundy arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1831 and took up a position as teacher of drawing, French and music at Ellinthorp Hall, a school near Ross established ‘with a view to the improvement of Young Ladies’.
4 portraits in the collection
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