Alexander McLeay (aka Macleay) (1767-1848), public servant and entomologist, acquired an interest in insects while working as a clerk in London.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Sir William John Macleay (1820-1891), pastoralist, politician, collector and promoter of science, had just begun to study medicine in his native Scotland when family circumstances dictated his migration to New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Stephanie Alexander AO (b. 1940), cook, restaurateur, food writer and philanthropist, has been a major influence on Australian food and culinary culture for 50 years.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Forrest was a delegate from Western Australia at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Jock Sturrock (1915–1997) was skipper of Gretel, the first Australian American’s Cup challenger in 1962 and was named Australian of the Year for his ‘plucky attempt’, his ‘modest and manly bearing’ and the ‘sporting spirit’ in which he and his crew accepted defeat.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Ramsay CBE (1914-1978), public servant, trained and worked as a teacher before gaining his degree at the University of Adelaide in 1941.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow (1842-1908), judge, was educated at Cambridge and practised law in England before being appointed attorney general of British Honduras in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), hydrographer and writer, began work with the East India Company in Madras in 1752.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.
3 portraits in the collection
Keith Alexander Laught (1907-1969), politician, was born in Adelaide and educated at Scotch College and then the University of Adelaide, becoming a barrister in 1929.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2006
Gift of the artist 2022
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2023