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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.

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Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania

Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania

Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania

Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)

Portrait, glass plate negative

Purchased 2011

Flora and Fauna, Giara: White Cockatoo, 2021 Luther Cora

Flora and Fauna, Giara: White Cockatoo

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB MD FRS (1817-1911), botanist, explorer and medical doctor, visited Australia as a member of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition of 1839 to 1843.

2 portraits in the collection

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1880s

an unknown artist

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

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

William Jackson Hooker

William Jackson Hooker

William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist, was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in which capacity he had significant influence on the study of Australian flora.

1 portrait in the collection

Téa-Anna Parvathy Murrin – Australian cultural identity, 2023 Franca Turrin

Téa-Anna Parvathy Murrin – Australian cultural identity

Mr. Zee, 2021 Luke Ray

Mr. Zee

The Quarry, 2022 Tajette O'Halloran

The Quarry

Tajette O'Halloran

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

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2017

Frances Perry

Frances Perry

Frances Perry (1815-1892) met Charles Perry through her brother, a student at Cambridge, and after they married, the couple lived at St Paul’s Cambridge, where he was vicar, for six years.

1 portrait in the collection

Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1738 Louis Gabriel Blanchet

Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Louis Gabriel Blanchet

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

John Wolseley

John Wolseley

John Wolseley was born in Somerset, England in 1938 and moved to Australia in 1976.

3 portraits in the collection

Sir Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1788

John Raphael Smith after Sir Benjamin West

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Purchased 2010

Paradise won, 2024 Ryan Presley

Ryan Presley: Paradise won

Previous exhibition, 2024

Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley’s major installation greets you as you arrive at the Gallery, in a work that invites conversations about the ongoing legacies of colonisation.

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