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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Frith family 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Purchased 2008
The caricaturist and engraver James Gillray's biting satires about Sir Joseph Banks.
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
In 2006 the National Portrait Gallery acquired a splendid portrait of Victoria's first governor, Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe by Thomas Woolner.
Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.