Benjamin Duterrau, who arrived in Tasmania in 1832 at the age of 65, created the first Australian history paintings with his images celebrating Robinson's conciliatory relocation project.
2 portraits in the collection
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-sl.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau")
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-ths.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2009
![Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau](/files/8/9/0/b/i8536-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau")
![Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau](/files/8/9/0/b/i8536-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835 Benjamin Duterrau")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2009
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Benjamin Law, sculptor and lithographer, arrived in Hobart in 1834 aboard the Sarah.
2 portraits in the collection
Benjamin West (1738-1820), an American painter, arrived in England in 1763 after a Grand Tour in Italy and soon won acclaim.
1 portrait in the collection
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835 Benjamin Law](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835 Benjamin Law")
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835 Benjamin Law](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835 Benjamin Law")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
![Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836 Benjamin Law](/files/c/b/d/0/i10110-sl.jpg "Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836 Benjamin Law")
![Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836 Benjamin Law](/files/c/b/d/0/i10110-ths.jpg "Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836 Benjamin Law")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Herbert Benjamin George Larkin CBE (c. 1871- 1944), shipping administrator, came to Australia from England and joined the office of the Australian Steam Navigation Company.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.
The American brothers Perez Mann, Benjamin and Nathaniel Batchelder worked in Victoria and New South Wales in the 1850s and 1860s.
9 portraits in the collection
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