Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the family of Sir Victor and Lady Windeyer 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ron Wylie 2007
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ronald Walker 2002
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Tom Roberts (1856–1931), artist, came to Australia from England at the age of 13, but returned eight years later to study art in London.
12 portraits in the collection
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke (1811-1892), politician, studied and tutored in law at Oxford before coming to Australia in 1842.
4 portraits in the collection
The Hon Sir Henry Parkes GCMG (1815-1896) was five times premier of New South Wales between 1872 and 1891, and a consistent advocate for union of the colonies (Federation).
4 portraits in the collection
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Henry (Thomas Henry) Kendall (1839-1882) was once regarded as the finest poet Australia had produced.
1 portrait in the collection
