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Baron Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller

Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller KCMG (1825–1896), botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in 1847.

1 portrait in the collection

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller

Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, c. 1890

Charles Troedel after Robert Wendel

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

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Ferdinand Jean Joubert

Ferdinand Jean Joubert was a photographer and engraver. Born in Paris, Joubert studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and began working as an engraver around 1830.

1 portrait in the collection

Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre

Edward John Eyre, 1865

Ferdinand Jean Joubert

Portrait, etching on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

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Frederick Schoenfeld

Frederick Schoenfeld was born in Switzerland and came to Australia in 1858 as a trained lthographer.Between 1859 and 1862 he worked as illustator and lithographer for publications prepared by the National Museum of Victoria.

1 portrait in the collection

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879), 1876

The Illustrated London News after Jesse Young

Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Purchased 2010

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

Ernest Giles

Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.

1 portrait in the collection

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 1899 by Carl Pietzner

The Archduke

About Face article

The immediate chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War began 100 years ago on June 28.

William Henry Harvey

William Henry Harvey

William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), botanist, formed a boyhood passion for natural history which was encouraged at Ballitore School, County Kildare.

1 portrait in the collection

Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine, c. 1610 Robert Peake the Elder

Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine

Robert Peake the Elder

Anna Frances Walker

Anna F. Walker

Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), botanical artist and collector, was one of the thirteen children of Thomas Walker, a high-ranking colonial public servant, and his wife Anna Elizabeth, the daughter of merchant and landowner John Blaxland.

1 portrait in the collection

William Dakin

William Dakin

William Dakin

William Dakin, c. 1943

Gervaise Purcell

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Leigh Purcell 2012

William Dakin

William Dakin

William Dakin (1883-1950), zoologist, studied in his native England and, as an Exhibition scholar, in Kiel, Germany.

1 portrait in the collection

On the passage and pace of time

About Face article

In shock it fluctuates and with age, accelerates. Remembering the First World War and the Easter Rising.

La Milo in Lady Godiva procession, Coventry, 1907

Pansy Montague

Pansy Montague, ‘La Milo’ (c. 1885-unknown) appeared as a chorus girl and actress in Melbourne from about 1898, and in 1901 understudied Nellie Stewart in Sydney.

10 portraits in the collection

Robert Brown

Robert Brown

Robert Brown (1773–1858) is considered ‘the father of Australian botany’.

2 portraits in the collection

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