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John Nixon
Biography
John Nixon (1949–2020), installation artist and painter, studied at the Preston Institute of Technology and the National Gallery School in the late 1960s and 1970.
1 portrait in the collection
John Nixon 1, January 1979, 1979 (printed 2012)
Robert Rooney
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Francis Nixon
Biography
Francis Russell Nixon (1803-1879) photographer, artist and Anglican clergyman, arrived in Hobart in 1843 to take up the role of Bishop of Tasmania.
2 portraits in the collection
Catholic clergymen from the Diocese of Adelaide, c. 1862
Stephen Edward Nixon
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased 2018
Sketches and sermons
Magazine article by Jessica Smith, 2009
Jessica Smith looks at the 'fetching' portrait of Tasmania's first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon by George Richmond
Francis Russell Nixon, c. 1845-1855
an unknown artist after George Richmond
Portrait, copperplate engraving, heightened with China white on buff paper
Purchased 2009
Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)
Francis Nixon
Portrait, glass plate negative
Purchased 2011
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John Mitchel with John Martin and Father John Kenyon [the three Johns], 1866
Edouard Gatel
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Opening of the First Legislative Council of Victoria by Governor Charles Joseph LaTrobe at St Patrick's Hall, Bourke Street West, Melbourne November 13th 1851, 1883
John Noone after William Strutt
Portrait, photolithograph on paper
Purchased 2013
Lieutenant Watts, 1789
John Sherwin after Samuel Shelley
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Edward John Eyre, Late Governor of Jamaica, 1867
John Brown after H Hering
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Karen McLeod Adair and Anthony Adair 2003
Captain Sir John Franklin, 1830
John Thomson after William Derby
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
General Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales, c. 1840
John R. Jackson after John Linnell
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2018
John Roper, 1860s
John Buchanan Smith
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Sandefur 2019
Professor Ralph Blacket, 1994
John Caldwell
Portrait, mixed media on archival mount board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2017
John Laws, 1981
John Williams
Portrait, montage of gelatin silver photographs
Purchased 1999