Charles Turner (1773-1851), engraver, was born in Oxfordshire and moved to London at the end of the 1780s.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Ethel Turner (1870-1958), writer, came to Australia with her twice-widowed mother at the age of nine.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Richard King 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Sydney Airports Corporation 2001
Sarah Hill introduces the portrait busts of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm by Enid Fleming.
Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture.
Charles Ulm (1898-1934) began work as a clerk in a stockbroking office after he left school, but enlisted under a false identity in the 1st Battalion of the AIF just before his 16th birthday.
2 portraits in the collection
Charles Teo AM (b. 1957) is a neurosurgeon. Born in Sydney, where he attended Scots College and graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of New South Wales, he worked for some years at the Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas and was Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas.
1 portrait in the collection
Jack Charles (b. 1943), Boon Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Elder, activist, actor, musician and artist, was born at the Cummeragunja Mission on the Murray River and taken from his mother when he was four months old.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Perkins AO (1936–2000) was an Indigenous rights campaigner and bureaucrat.
6 portraits in the collection
Charles Kean (1811-1868), actor, threw in his Eton education when his mother was deserted by his penniless father, the tragedian Edmund Kean.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Blackman OBE (1928–2018), artist, studied at East Sydney Technical College and worked as a press artist for the Sun newspaper before moving to Melbourne, where he came to the attention of arts patron John Reed.
9 portraits in the collection
Charles Abraham, son of a London architect, trained at the Royal Academy schools under the sculptor Sierier, and for a further three years in Paris and Rome.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Troedel (1835-1906), born in Hamburg, was working in Norway when he was headhunted by AW Schuhkrafft, a Melbourne printer who seeking European craftsmen.
1 portrait in the collection
