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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Portraits

Portrait of Tam Purves, 1958

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Maisie, 1938-1939

Peter Purves Smith

Portrait, gouache on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Bequest of Lady Maisie Drysdale 2001

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847

an unknown artist, Thomas Warton

Portrait, daguerreotype on in a pinchbeck case

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878

an unknown artist

Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

The New Arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, 1941

Russell Drysdale

Portrait, pen and pencil on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Bequest of Lady Maisie Drysdale 2001

Self portrait, 1971

Thomas de Kessler

Portrait, pen and ink on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Diana de Kessler 2009

Thomas Lee, 1847?

Portrait, oil on canvas laid on composition board

Courtesy of the Tait family

Rover Thomas, 1986

Martin van der Wal

Portrait, inkjet print on rag paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 1838

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Thomas White, midshipman, c. 1838

Portrait, etching on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

The Explorers and Early Colonists of Victoria, 1872

Thomas Foster Chuck

Portrait, composite albumen paper photograph consisting of 713 personages

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Daniel Thomas, 1987

Judy Cassab AO CBE

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr Peter Kampfner 2013
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Thomas Woolner, c. 1865

an unknown artist

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Reverend Thomas Buddle, 1863

Batchelder & O'Neill

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Andy Thomas, 2002

Montalbetti & Campbell

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2002

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

The National Portrait Gallery is an Australian Government Agency