Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Canberra 2000
Australia's tradition of sculpted portraits stretches back to the early decades of the nineteenth century and continues to sustain a group of dedicated sculptors.
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
An interview with the photographer.
Thomas Lempriere came to Tasmania in 1822, received a land grant and became a founding shareholder of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land.
1 portrait in the collection
Edward Paine Butler (1811-1849), lawyer, and his wife Martha Sarah Butler (née Asprey, 1811-1864), arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
1 portrait in the collection
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812-1870), politician, was born on the Isle of Man and educated at Castletown.
1 portrait in the collection
Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.
Dr George Fordyce Story (1800-1885) was an English-born doctor who became district assistant surgeon in Van Diemen's Land.
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas-Martin Petit was born in Paris, the son of a fan maker, and learned graphic art in the studio of Jacques Louis David.
9 portraits in the collection
Experience the artistic clout of Brook Andrew’s portraits of Marcia Langton AM and Anthony Mundine.
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Antoine Maurin, lithographer, is little known. He was born in Perpignan, France, and died in Paris.
6 portraits in the collection
Crystal Gazing: Headspace V, the fifth in the National Portrait Gallery's program of secondary student portrait exhibitions, invites students from Canberra and the surrounding regions to explore the possibilities of portraiture
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) is one of the most intriguing and talented figures in colonial Australian art.
4 portraits in the collection
