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Frederick Bromley after Robert Frain

Frederick Bromley was among a family of printmakers active in Britain for much of the 19th century.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1842

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Frederick Woodhouse

Frederick Woodhouse Senior, painter, lithographer and engraver, arrived in Melbourne in 1858 in the Parsee to establish himself as a horse portraitist.

1 portrait in the collection

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

Hon. Sir Frederick Darley

Sir Frederick Darley GCMG (1830-1910), chief justice and lieutenant governor, came to New South Wales as an adult and was admitted to the Bar in 1862; in 1868 he was nominated to the Legislative Council.

1 portrait in the collection

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882

Frederick Spofforth

Frederick Spofforth (1853–1926), fast bowler, was a member of the Australian cricket team whose defeat of England at The Oval in 1882 brought about ‘The Ashes’ Test series.

3 portraits in the collection

Frederick E. Du Faur

Frederick Eccleston du Faur (1832–1915), environmentalist, public servant and arts patron, came to Australia from his native London in 1853.

1 portrait in the collection

Frederick Cato

Frederick Cato (1858-1935), grocer and philanthropist, was born in a tent at Pleasant Creek (Stawell), to the Scottish wife of an English gold miner.

1 portrait in the collection

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner

Frederick Lowry

Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.

1 portrait in the collection

Frederick George Reynolds

Frederick George Reynolds was born in London, the son of a watercolourist, Frederick G Reynolds senior, who was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy.

1 portrait in the collection

Frederick Cato, 1932

W B McInnes

Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert (1872-1946), author, traveller and mining engineer, first visited Australia in 1890, when he undertook a journey of exploration from Lake Gairdner to the upper Murchison River.

1 portrait in the collection

Walter Frederick Gale

Walter Frederick Gale (1865-1945), banker and astronomer, joined the Savings Bank of New South Wales in 1888.

1 portrait in the collection

Aubrey Beardsley

Frederick Henry Evans

Portrait, pen and ink on paper

Walter A Gale, 1917

Boz

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Ludwig Becker, 1861

Frederick Schoenfeld

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Canberra 2000

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie, 1887

Frederick Woodhouse

Purchased 2008

Eccleston Du Faur, 1911

Violet Teague

Gift of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service 2020

Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford)

Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford GCB GCVO

Portrait, mezzotint on paper

Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford GCB GCVO (1838–1913) was governor of Western Australia from 1903 to 1909.

1 portrait in the collection

The Honorable Sir Frederick Darley, c. 1887

Henry Samuel Sadd

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

Master Molteno, c. 1866

Townsend Duryea

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Sure thing

Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009

Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie 1887 by Frederick Woodhouse Snr. is a portrait of James Scobie, well known jockey and eminent horse trainer.

Studio of the American & Australasian Photographic Co., Hill End, 1872

A rogue's calling card

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008

Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.

Robert Henderson Croll, 1927

Frederick George Reynolds

Portrait, oil on canvas on board

Gift of Grietje Croll in memory of her late husband Robert Devereaux Croll and with the endorsement of his daughter Helen Croll 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Tea time, c.1898–1902 by Rupert Bunny (1864–1947)

Impressions

Painting light and life

Previous exhibition, 2011

Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner, c. 1863

an unknown artist, Freeman Brothers

Portrait, albumen silver photographs on laid on paper with handwritten text

Purchased 2008

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth)

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine

Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine

Purchased 2002

The Demon bowler (Frederick Robert Spofforth), 1878

Portrait, coloured chalk with black ink highlight on artist board

Purchased 2015

His Royal Highness Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (Governor General of Australia)

His Royal Highness Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (Governor General of Australia), 1943-1944

Charles Wheeler

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Beguiling impressions

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2012

Sarah Engledow is seduced by the portraits and the connections between the artists and their subjects in the exhibition Impressions: Painting light and life.

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert), 1895

Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine

Sir Leslie Ward, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Vanity Fair Magazine

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Western Australia (Sir Frederick Bedford), 1903

Unknown artist Publisher Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Purchased 2015

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 1

an unknown artist, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, 1882

Portrait, engravings on paper

Purchased 2009

The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney

The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney, 1884

The Graphic

Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Purchased 2015

Frederick Burnaby

James Jacques Tissot

Portrait, pencil on paper

Sir Frederick Chaney, n.d.

Louis Kahan AO

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Earl Carter

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

Yuge, 2019

Kathrin Longhurst

Frances (Fanny) Cato, 1933

an unknown artist

Gift in memory of Frederick John Cato Kumm 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Walter Lindrum OBE

Walter Lindrum OBE (1898–1960), billiard player, was born into family of billiard champions in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where his father ran billiard rooms and a bookmaking business.

1 portrait in the collection

Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia and Electress Palatine

Robert Peake the Elder

Two iBooks of authentic records

Prison and death in the 19th century

Learning resources

These books include sixteen inmates including Ned Kelly, Captain Moonlite and Frederick Deeming and twelve sketches of the deceased, including several children. For Year 7 – 9 students.

William Burman

William Insull Burman came to Victoria in 1853 and worked as a painter and decorator before establishing his own photography business in Carlton in about 1863.

1 portrait in the collection

Walter Lindrum OBE, c. 1932

Will Longstaff

Portrait, carte de visite photograph

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2006

Minnie Walton, c. 1874

Fradelle & Marshall

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Arthur William Burman

Fredrick Charles Burman after John Cochran

Arthur William Burman was one of the nine children of photographer William Insull Burman (1814-1890), who came to Victoria in 1853.

2 portraits in the collection

Reverend Daniel Draper, c. 1866

Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite

Purchased 2010

Thomas Clark

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

Colin Wills

Colin Wills (1906–1965), journalist and author, was born in Toowoomba, Queensland and grew up in Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

George Coates

George Coates, Melbourne-born artist, started his art career in a stained glass workshop, attending classes with Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery school at night.

1 portrait in the collection

Samuel Woolf

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on card

Samuel Johnson Woolf, American painter, lithographer and illustrator, was born in New York City and named after the English essayist Samuel Johnson.

1 portrait in the collection

Ada Crossley, c. 1900

Rotary Photo Company Ltd

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Roger Neill 2009

Of Kings and men

Celebrating 100 years of the Historic Memorials Collection

Previous exhibition, 2011

This display celebrates 100 years of the Historic Memorials Collection and its role in commissioning portraits of parliamentary and judicial figures in Australia.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Portrait, platinum photograph on printed card

Julia Margaret Cameron was of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century.

1 portrait in the collection

Arthur Streeton, Nora Streeton (nee Clench) and Pat, the dog

Arthur Streeton, Nora Streeton (nee Clench) and Pat, the dog, c. 1909

H. Walter Barnett

Purchased 2001

Arthur Streeton, c. 1890

H. Walter Barnett

Portrait, platinum photograph on original studio backing card

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Charles Hewitt

Born in Lincolnshire, Charles Hewitt (1837–1912) had begun working in Melbourne by 1860 and was one of the founding members of the Photographic Society of Victoria.

3 portraits in the collection

Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd

Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd (1919-1971), was born and educated in Melbourne, and a member of the famous Australian family of artists and writers.

1 portrait in the collection

George Richmond

Previous exhibition, 2000

George Richmond, son of the miniature painter Thomas Richmond, grew up in London, took early artistic instruction from his father and enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1824.

1 portrait in the collection

Sporting Archibald

Celebrating the focus on sport during 2000, this special exhibition features our national sporting heroes and heroines immortalised on canvas

Bess Norriss Tait

Bess Norriss Tait (1879-1939), artist, was born in Melbourne and studied under Frederick McCubbin and Bernard Hall at the National Gallery School between 1897 and 1901.

1 portrait in the collection

W B McInnes