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William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson, 1863
William Edward Kilburn
Portrait, carte de visite photograph on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Album of cartes de visite and cabinet cards compiled by William St Leonards Robertson, 1860s-c. 1900
Various
Portrait, 24 page brown leather bound album of 119 cartes de visite and 16 cabinet card photographs
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
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William and Martha Mary Robertson and their children [William St Leonards, Eliza, John, William St Leonards on a horse, Beatrice and Ida], 1860s-1870s
Various
Portrait, eight carte de visites, hand coloured, contained in a red leather presentation case
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
William Robertson junior, c. 1857
Conway Hart
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Brothers on farms
Magazine article by Malcolm Robertson, 2011
Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.
William Robertson jnr, c. 1852
an unknown artist
Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype, hand coloured with case
Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.