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Earl Carter completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before embarking on his a freelance photographic career in 1981.

1 portrait in the collection

The Right Honourable Charles Lord Hawkesbury, Chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster

Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool

Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), statesman, was educated at Oxford and entered parliament in 1761.

1 portrait in the collection

William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), governor, was appointed to the position of Governor of NSW in 1899.

1 portrait in the collection

Sean Godsell, 2009

Earl Carter

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

John Murphy after George Romney

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl Liverpool, Lord Hawkesbury (1770–1828), statesman, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827.

2 portraits in the collection

The Right Honourable Charles Lord Hawkesbury, Chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, 1788

Charles Turner after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 1827

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

New South Wales (Earl Beauchamp), 1899

Edward Scriven, J B Ball & J DeCamp after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Rt. Honourable Lord Hawkesbury, 1808

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, c. 1774

Valentine Green after Johann Zoffany

Robert Dunkarton after Sir Thomas Lawrence

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Robert Earl of Buckinghamshire (Hobart), 1808

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

The Lord Chamberlain (Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope)

The Lord Chamberlain (Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope), 1900

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers

R Cooper after John Singleton Copley

Victor Albert George Child-Villiers (1845-1915) succeeded his father George Augustus (1808-1859), 6th earl, who had only held the title for three weeks, as 7th earl of Jersey in 1859.

1 portrait in the collection

Admiral Earl Howe, n.d.

Portrait, engraving on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Candidate for Chelsea (9th Earl of Kintore)

Candidate for Chelsea (9th Earl of Kintore), 1880

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper laid on cardboard

Purchased 2015

Portrait of the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, the Rt Hon. John Hope

Portrait of the Seventh Earl of Hopetoun, the Rt Hon. John Hope, 1901

an unknown artist

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Nelson Earl - Dance - The Ephemeral Art, Straithfield, 2018

by Kellie Leczinska

New South Wales (Earl of Jersey Victor Albert George Child-Villiers), 1890

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington)

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Henry Meyer after Thomas Phillips

Henry Bathurst, Earl Bathurst, 1810

Portrait, soft ground etching on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer

Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine

Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (1852–1930) was governor of South Australia from 1889 to 1895.

1 portrait in the collection

Round the World (Thomas Brassey), 1877

Purchased 2015

Portrait of Sean Godsell, 2009 by Earl Carter

Sean Godsell Architects

General content

Based in Melbourne, Sean Godsell is known internationally for his distinctive residential architecture.

Thomas Brassey

Previous exhibition, 2009

Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey (1836–1918), politician and governor, studied law and modern history at Oxford, but abandoned law for a career in politics two years after being called to the Bar.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Johnson Pilton Walker,
Inside the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra,
25 Hours 31 minutes, 22-23 May 2009 by Ingvar Kenne

Portraits + Architecture

This exhibition explores creative process and identity.

Richard Howe

Richard Howe (1st Earl Howe, 1726–1799), naval commander, served in the Royal Navy for over fifty years, seeing action in the Seven Years War, the American Wars of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.

1 portrait in the collection

Henry Bathurst KG PC

Henry Bathurst, Third Earl Bathurst KG PC (1762-1834) was a lord of the Admiralty from 1783 to 1789; a lord of the Treasury from 1789 to 1791; and commissioner of the Board of Control from 1793 to 1802.

1 portrait in the collection

Robert Hobart

Robert Hobart, fourth Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), statesman, was a soldier in the war against the American colonies and served as aide-de-camp to several lord lieutenants of Ireland before becoming Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1789 to 1793.

1 portrait in the collection

John Connell

associated with John Taylor

John Connell (c. 1759–1849), free settler, merchant and landowner, came to New South Wales aboard the Earl Cornwallis, which arrived in Sydney in June 1801.

1 portrait in the collection

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

William Shakespeare

associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare

associated with John Taylor

William Shakespeare

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Magazine article by Dr David Hansen, 2022

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was one of the leading portrait painters of the Georgian era.

8 portraits in the collection

Lord Kitchener, n.d.

William Howitt

Portrait, carved Jarrah

Purchased 2016

Unheroic Materialism: little harmless fragments of memory and association: a portrait of Angus Trumble, 2019 Evert Ploeg

The last word

David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.

Lord John Russell, 1844

Samuel Bellin after Thomas Heathfield Carrick

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Rt Hon John Adrian Louis Hope KT GCMG GCVO PC

The artists and their furry friends

Rt Hon John Adrian Louis Hope KT GCMG GCVO PC, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860–1908) was the first governor general of Australia.

3 portraits in the collection

Sarah Engledow and Acorn, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Explore The Popular Pet Show

General content

Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.

Henry John Rous

Henry John Rous (1795–1877), naval officer, racing enthusiast and politician, arrived in Sydney in February 1827 as the commander of the frigate HMS Rainbow.

1 portrait in the collection

Thomas Joseph Carr

Thomas Joseph Carr (1839–1917) was the second Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, the successor to James Alipius Goold.

2 portraits in the collection

Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington

Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (1843–1928), 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, landowner and Liberal politician, was governor of New South Wales in the late 1880s.

2 portraits in the collection

The Right Honourable William Pitt

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was Tory prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801, and of United Kingdom from 1804 to 1806.

1 portrait in the collection

John Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell KG GCMG PC (1792 –1878) was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1839 to 1841 and served twice as Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1846-1852 and 1865-1866.

1 portrait in the collection

Lord Kitchener

Imperial strategist

Once central to military strategy and venerated in patriotic households, Lord Kitchener is now largely forgotten.

Ralph Heimans AM

Sydney-based painter Ralph Heimans AM (b. 1970) is one of the world's foremost contemporary portraitists, having created a body of work that has expanded and redefined the possibilities of what is sometimes perceived as an inflexibly traditional genre.

19 portraits in the collection

Indexing, the art of

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2020

The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.

Venetia, Lady Digby, circa 1633-1634 by Sir Anthony van Dyck

Love in the extreme

Joanna Gilmour reveals love’s more intense manifestations in the tale of Lord Kenelm and Venetia Digby.

Vanity fair

Magazine article by Ashleigh Wadman, 2012

Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.

Revd Dr Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, c.1795 by Sir Henry Raeburn

Great Scots

Magazine article by Diana O'Neil, 2017

Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Lady Eyre Williams (Jessie Gibbon)

Chance encounter

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.

Why do painted portraits still matter?

Magazine article by Sandy Nairne, 2006

Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.

Inditchenous beestes of New Olland

A remarkable undated drawing by Edward Lear (1812–88) blends natural history and whimsy.

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, 1824 by James Thomson

Audacity, audacity, audacity