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Thomas Clark
Biography
Thomas Clark, teacher and painter, arrived in Victoria from England in about 1852, having been anatomical draftsman at King's College London and headmaster of the Birmingham School of Design.
1 portrait in the collection
Portrait of His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria, c. 1864
Thomas Clark
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2007
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891 from Australasia Illustrated, 1891
an unknown artist
Portrait, engraving on paper (4 sheets)
Purchased 2009
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847
an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton
Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case
Purchased 2001
The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2003
Hon. A L. Clark
Biography
The Hon. A.L. Clark was a delegate from Tasmania at the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Dymphna Clark
Biography
Dymphna Clark (1916-2000), linguist, translator, chatelaine and matriarch, was born Hilma Dymphna Lodewyckx.
1 portrait in the collection
Tony Clark
Biography
Canberra-born artist Tony Clark moved to London with his family in 1960.
1 portrait in the collection
Bessy Clark
Biography
Pangernowidedic also known as Bessy Clark (c. 1825-1867) was a woman from the Port Davey district in south west Tasmania, the daughter of Tingernoop and Cordwanene.
2 portraits in the collection
Navin Rawanchaikul
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
Navin Rawanchaikul has built his practice around explorations of the transient nature of identity in a globalised world, and draws much of his material from his own experiences.
FX Harsono
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
FX Harsono was born in 1949, just as the independence of the Indonesian nation was being established.
Alwin Reamillo
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
Alwin Reamillo was born in Manila, Philippines in 1964. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and began his career as a visual art teacher at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
Masters of modern Indonesian portraiture
Previous exhibition, 2014
Masters of modern Indonesian portraiture presents key modernist paintings and drawings along with a selection of contemporary works.
Beyond the Self
Contemporary Portraiture from Asia
Previous exhibition, 2011
This exhibition examines the representation of the self in current South and Southeast Asian art practice through the work of artists from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand
Professor Graeme Clark AO
Biography
Graeme M. Clark AO (b. 1935) is Laureate Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne and the Director of the Bionic Ear Institute.
3 portraits in the collection