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Stand by your man
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
Gift of Dr Phillip Law 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Phillip Law AC AO CBE (1912–2010), scientist and Antarctic explorer, developed an interest in the frozen continent as a boy.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), Arctic explorer and governor, served under Matthew Flinders on the Investigator and later said that this experience fired his passion for exploration.
5 portraits in the collection
Jane Franklin (née Griffin, 1791–1875) came to Van Diemen’s Land in 1837 following the appointment of her husband, Sir John Franklin, to the position of lieutenant-governor of the colony.
2 portraits in the collection